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APPROVED: Acute Stroke-Ready Hospital Advanced Certification Program.

Specific Care Advanced Certification program for Acute Stroke–Ready Hospitals (ASRH) for accredited hospitals and critical access hospitals. Requirements for the new certification program, which was developed in collaboration with the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, are effective July 1, 2015. Over the past ten years in the United States, using stroke centers to provide care for patients with an acute stroke has become a more frequent practice. The Joint Commission currently provides two levels of stroke center certification— primary stroke and comprehensive stroke. However, the literature indicates that many patients who have an acute stroke live in areas without ready access to a primary or comprehensive stroke center. In fact, at least 50% of the population in the United States lives more than 60 minutes away from a primary stroke center.1 The Joint Commission’s new Acute Stroke–Ready Hospital certification program is designed for accredited hospitals that would not be likely candidates for Primary Stroke Center (PSC) certification (for example, hospitals in rural areas without resources to achieve PSC certification). The program was developed based on the Stroke article “Formation and Function of Acute Stroke–Ready Hospitals Within a Stroke System of Care Recommendations From the Brain Attack Coalition.”2 Organizations that achieve this certification will provide the following: