STROKE AWARENESS FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
Since 2002 the Stroke Awareness Foundation has improved community awareness for stroke and its treatment through advocacy, education and public awareness.
About This Cause
We support hospital stroke center certification, training and redirection efforts of paramedics and emergency care, as well as continued education about the warning signs of stroke and the need to seek proper medical care immediately. Our goal is to save lives and improve outcomes of stroke victims. We rely on the generous donations, 100 percent of which stay here in Santa Clara County. To support stroke awareness in our community, make a donation today. Before SAF was founded in 2002, Santa Clara County had neither a single certified stroke center, nor a redirection policy to ensure stroke victims were taken to the proper hospital. Today, there is a different story to tell. SAF was instrumental in helping local hospitals to become Certified Stroke Centers. There are currently 6 Primary Stroke Centers certified by the Joint Commission for Accreditation , 1 Comprehensive Capable Center as well as 3 Comprehensive Stroke Centers in Santa Clara County. In 2003, Good Samaritan Hospital was the first of five in the country and the first in Santa Clara County to become a Stroke Certified Hospital. Stanford Hospital became the first in the country to receive the Joint Commission’s new Comprehensive Stroke Center certification. Pat Dando, Chuck Toeniskoetter and Chuck Hoffman SAF advocated for a policy to redirect emergency medical transportation in Santa Clara County so that all stroke victims will be transported directly to a Certified Stroke Center. This ground-breaking legislation, unanimously approved by the Santa Clara Board of Supervisors, was the first of its kind in California. SAF has reached over millions of people through our participation in local health fairs and health related events including two regional symposiums at Stanford University. The “Act FAST!” message has been reflected on VTA buses, informational sticky notes, banners, newspapers articles in English, Spanish and Vietnamese. SAF continues to facilitate media advertising for National Stroke Alert Day with more than a dozen county agencies. SAF has received significant attention from local and national media outlets, such as San Jose Magazine, San Jose Business Journal, The San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley News, CNN and The Wall Street Journal. HISTORY OF SAF 2002: SAF was founded by Pat Dando, Chuck Toeniskoetter & Chuck Hoffman. SAF prompted the Joint Commission to perform stroke hospital certifications. 2003: Good Samaritan Hospital became one of the first five hospitals in the U.S. to be certified as a Primary Stroke Center (PSC) 2004- 2008: SAF advocated for a policy to redirect EMS transport in Santa Clara County so that all stroke victims will be transported directly to a Primary Stroke Center (PSC) 2005: SAF successfully built support amongst the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, and in 2005 the Board unanimously approved a policy to redirect emergency medical transportation of all stroke victims directly to a Certified Stroke Center. This ground-breaking legislation was the first of its kind in California. With SAF training, Santa Clara County paramedics have identified stroke with 95% accuracy and 100% of these patients were immediately taken to a PSCSAF has trained EMS in the counties of San Francisco, Alameda, Monterey, Contra Costa, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, South San Francisco, San Benito and Sacramento 2009: Santa Clara County has 10 Primary Stroke Centers (PSC), more than any county in the U.S. 2012- 2014: Good Samaritan Hospital, Stanford Hospital & Clinics, and Regional Medical Center were certified as Comprehensive Stroke Centers (CSCs) 2017: SAF was successful in further defining the stroke protocol to redirect the acute stroke cases and patients outside of the tPA treatment window directly to a Comprehensive Certified Stroke.