Overview of Yarmouth Stroke Project

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Overview of Yarmouth Stroke Project
Yarmouth Stroke Forum
Dr. Renée Lyons
June 16, 2005
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Why Yarmouth?
A diagnosis of stroke in this community is the
same as receiving a death sentence. (Comment
from a health professional, Heart Stroke
Foundation, 1995)
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Why Yarmouth?
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What Our Goals Were

• To develop a model of a rural health systems
  organization for persons with stroke and their
  families that can be utilized in rural
  communities in Canada and internationally.
• To address an identified need for community-based
  rehabilitation services in southwestern Nova
  Scotia.
• To provide innovative and challenging learning
  opportunities for students in research and
  practice in an interdisciplinary, rural context.

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What We Said We Would Do

• To conduct a systematic assessment of best
  practices for rural community rehabilitation
  services.
• To develop a profile of the target populations
  and services in the Yarmouth area and identify
  opportunities for student training and volunteer
  development.
• To share findings from the data collection phase
  and design a community-based rehabilitation
  program.

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What We Said We Would Do

• To develop the pilot program in the community.
• To implement and evaluate the pilot program.
• To disseminate project findings and develop
  strategies to influence policy.
• To evaluate the process and outcomes of the CAHR.

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Gather Information and Views
Information about Stroke Care Best Practices
Working Group Literature Review
Information about Living with Stroke Individual
Needs Working Group Interviews
Information about Community Community Assets
Working Group Asset Mapping
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Discuss and Involve
Yarmouth Stroke Forum Knowledge Sharing Working
Group
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Discuss and Involve
Yarmouth Stroke Forum
Forum Advice on Actions
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Engage
Working Groups Awareness and Education Stroke
Care Stroke Navigator Access and
Transportation Stroke Club
Forum Advice on Actions
Best Practices
Development Projects Hypertension Occupational
Therapy Cognitive Therapy Stroke Medication
Individual Needs
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Partner
Working Groups Awareness and Education Stroke
Care Stroke Navigator Access and
Transportation Stroke Club
Example Partners Western Regional
Libraries South West Health VON Transport dClare
/ HOPE Lions Club
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Partner
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Inform and Educate
Outcomes Individuals System Services Processes T
ools
Evaluation
Reporting Monograph Reports Presentations Forum
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Next

• In consultation with the Heart and Stroke
  Foundation of Nova Scotia and the South West Nova
  District Health Authority, we will spend 500,000
  to pilot new efforts to prevent stroke and
  improve acute care, emergency care, and
  rehabilitative services for stroke survivors.
• Nova Scotia Budget Address for the Fiscal Year
  2005-2006

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Next

• How do we continue the work of the Yarmouth
  Stroke Project after March 31, 2006?
• Yarmouth as a demonstration site?
• New grants?
• Who continues the work?

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Project is funded by Canadian Institutes for
Health Research Community Alliance for Health
Research Heart and Stroke Foundation of
Canada Additional support from Southwest Health
Project has received ethics approval
from Southwest Health Ethics Committee Dalhousi
e University Health Sciences Research Ethics Board
Contact Us
www.ysp.ca
stroke2_at_swndha.nshealth.ca