Why We’re Especially Proud of Our Stroke Rehabilitation Certification During Stroke Awareness Month
Last year, Boro Park Center became the first — and remains the only — comprehensive rehabilitation center in New York state to earn the Skilled Nursing Facility Stroke Rehabilitation Certification from the American Heart Association. This certification is only given to the facilities that have proven to have the best patient and caregiver education and support, care coordination and clinical management.
Why Is This Certification Important for Boro Park Center?
Access to stroke rehab is essential, helping survivors regain lost physical, cognitive and speech functions. As the first facility in New York to achieve Stroke Certification from the AHA, we’re making it easier for stroke survivors to get the kind of rehab they need – right in Boro Park – to prevent long-term complications, maximize independence and improve their outcome.
How We Did It
We’re always grateful for the hard work, dedication, and teamwork of every care team member at BPC that make those positive outcomes happen, but especially this month, during Stroke Awareness month. From nursing to rehab, medical teams to support staff, each department plays a vital role. Attaining our Stroke Rehabilitation Certification required that all of these teams come together every single day to provide a rapid response and top-notch patient care.
Our team at BPC blends their expertise and their commitment to the highest quality patient care to build trust and accountability with their patients but also support long-term recovery goals.
Patients who arrive after life changing strokes, unable to walk, stand, or move an arm or leg leave us weeks later returning home with strength, function, and hope.
Looking Ahead
This certification does not only highlight the immediate response to patient stroke care but also follows the patient’s progress to their recovery milestones. Focusing on patients regaining their independence and maintaining a sustainable recovery is the ultimate goal for our facilities.
Care. Support. Positive Outcomes. Centers Health Care.
Centers Health Care provides rehabilitation, skilled nursing and long-term care for people with a wide range of needs. Whether someone is recovering from surgery, managing an illness or simply needs more support than can be provided at home, our staff is there to help.
The goal is not exactly the same for everyone. It may be returning home, becoming stronger, staying independent or simply feeling better and more comfortable from one day to the next. There will be progress, setbacks and difficult days along the way. Our job is to be there through all of it, and to help each patient or resident get as far as he or she can.
Sometimes that progress comes in large steps. More often, it comes in small ones. Either way, every step matters.
Our Steps to Home series follows patients through rehabilitation and the journey from hospital to home:
