Montana Mission: Lifeline Stroke® for Healthcare Providers

What is Mission: Lifeline® Stroke?
Mission: Lifeline Stroke is a program for transforming stroke care by focusing efforts on connecting all of the components of acute stroke care into a smoothly integrated system that reinforces use of evidence-based guidelines, measures performance, identifies gaps, and engages in improvement projects at a systems level. The stroke system of care begins with community recognition and preparedness to identify stroke and continues all the way through hospital discharge, into rehabilitation and the initiation of secondary prevention. It brings together hospitals, ambulance services, non-transport medical first response agencies, emergency communications centers, emergency medical service regulatory and medical direction agencies, local government, local media, and payers to forge a proactive system of stroke care that saves and improves lives.Upcoming Events:
Order Sets: Stroke Toolbox
- Alteplase Admin (DOCX)
- Alteplase Guideline for Patient Selection (DOCX)
- Alternate Version MSWG Transfer Handoff Checklist (DOCX)
- ED Hemorrhagic Orders (DOCX)
- ED Stroke Alert Orders (DOCX)
- ED Stroke Alteplase Orders (DOCX)
- Hemorrhagic Admission Orders (DOCX)
- Ischemic Stroke Admission Orders (DOCX)
- MSWG Transfer Handoff Checklist (DOCX)
- MTWSG TIA Guideline (DOCX)
- Nursing Dysphagia Screen Algorithm (PDF)
- Post Thrombolytic Admission Orders (DOCX)
- Stroke Guideline Provider Letter (PDF)
Straight Talk About Stroke
In our first presentation in the Straight Talk About Stroke series, American Heart Association volunteer Todd Mohr, PA, Education and Quality Program Manager with St. James Healthcare talks about stroke assessment tools. Watch his 26 minute presentation.
Montana FAST Chat Webinars
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Montana FAST Chat: Treatment of TIA
On this Montana FAST Chat, we're joined by Todd Mohr, PA. Todd is the Quality Program Coordinator and Healthcare Provider Educator for Intermountain Healthcare | St. James in Butte, MT.
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Nurse Driven Protocols: Efficiency & Speed in Stroke Care
Ellen “Penny” Clifton, MSN, RN, CNRN, SCRN
Stroke & Bariatric Program Coordinator/Neuroscience Education/Donate Life St. Vincent Healthcare , Billings, MT AND deAmbra Coleman, RN, Manager of Clinical Education, Holy Rosary Healthcare, Miles City, MT -
Identification of Stroke, posterior, anterior, and LVO
Kurt Lindsay, MD
Mission Lifeline Stroke Physician Chair and Medical Director of Stroke for Logan Health, Kalispell, MT -
Ellen "Penny" Clifton MSN RN CNRN SCRN
St. Vincent Healthcare and deAmbra Coleman, BSN, RN with Holy Rosary Healthcare -
Emergency Department Process for Stroke
Jamie Belsky, MD, FACEP
Billings Clinic Hospital
News:
- Rural residents, American Indians travel farthest for certified stroke care
- Stroke deaths rise in rural areas, hold steady in cities
- Risk of second stroke can be reduced with prevention efforts based on cause of first stroke
- Billings Gazette: $4.8M grant to expand stroke care in rural Montana
- Great Falls Tribune: State gets $4.8M grant to improve stroke care in rural Montana
- Bitterroot Star: Former Star columnist featured in launch of $4.8 million stroke initiative
- Obesity during adolescence linked to increased risk of stroke as an adult
- Managing children’s weight, blood pressure & cholesterol protects brain function mid-life
- Women face unique risks for high blood pressure and stroke
Contact Us
Joani Guzman
Quality Systems Manager
Mission: Lifeline Montana
American Heart Association
Billings, MT 59102
(406) 671-1640
Janna Pietrzak
Quality Systems Manager -
Mission: Lifeline Stroke Montana, Post-Acute Care
(701) 730-3305
Gary W. Myers, MS
National Sr. Program Manager
Quality, Outcomes, Research and Analytics (QORA)
(605) 675-9446