Bill Singletary honored as a Stroke Star
The UK HealthCare/Norton Healthcare Stroke Care Network selected Bill Singletary, RN, Stroke Program Coordinator for The Medical Center at Bowling Green, as its September 2022 Stroke Star. The Stroke Star award recognizes the important work being done by individuals to continuously improve stroke systems, prevention and care across the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
“Bill is a very dedicated professional whose expertise and leadership have been integral to the success of The Medical Center at Bowling Green’s Stroke Program,” said Connie Smith, President & Chief Executive Officer of Med Center Health. “Our stroke program has achieved multiple awards under Bill’s leadership. He provides expert guidance to our organization and across the state – it is fitting that Bill has been recognized with this award.”
As the stroke program coordinator, Bill has successfully led The Medical Center at Bowling Green through seven Primary Stroke Center certification surveys by The Joint Commission (TJC). Under his leadership, The Medical Center earned the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association’s Gold Plus Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Quality Achievement Award, Target: StrokeSM Honor Roll Elite Award and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor RollTM Award multiple times. In 2021 The Medical Center at Bowling Green also received two UK HealthCare/Norton Healthcare Stroke Care Network awards: The Service Award for Community Outreach and Bill was recognized with their Top Performer Award.
Bill advises multidisciplinary stroke teams at Med Center Health’s critical access hospitals to achieve the goal of Acute Stroke Ready Hospital certification by TJC. The Medical Center at Franklin recently earned certification and The Medical Centers at Scottsville and Caverna are preparing for their applications. Bill also serves as a resource on stroke matters across the state.
“I consider it a great honor to be nominated and selected for this stroke network recognition,” said Bill. “I am so passionate about our stroke program and how much it means to our patients, to our community, and to our providers and staff. While it’s my role to bring everyone together towards a common goal of guideline-based quality care, service and education, it takes everyone on the stroke and administrative teams to make our program such a success, and I am so very proud of all of them.”