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Wellness committee reviews Milwaukee County Stroke Alert Dashboard and outreach options
Summary
A staff presenter walked the committee through Milwaukee County’s Stroke Alert Dashboard, which tracks EMS-initiated stroke alerts and shows mean time to alert and demographic breakdowns; members discussed disparities, community outreach, and prevention programs tied to the data.
A county staff member presented the Milwaukee County Stroke Alert Dashboard and described it as “a really neat resource” that tracks EMS-initiated stroke alerts and hospital notifications across the county.
The presenter said the dashboard is designed to highlight how quickly field clinicians recognize a suspected stroke and notify hospitals to prepare teams and imaging. “This dashboard sort of does is it highlights the speed of field recognition of a stroke, hospital notifications, and then overall system performance that supports rapid treatment,” the staff member said. The presenter clarified the dashboard shows stroke alerts reported by EMS clinicians, not total stroke incidence.
Committee members reviewed key figures shown on the dashboard: the mean time from first medical contact to stroke alert was reported at about 12 minutes in the presenter’s summary, and the dashboard lists confirmed stroke types with roughly 68 percent ischemic, about 20 percent hemorrhagic and 11 percent TIAs. The presenter cautioned that these figures are drawn from EMS-reported stroke alerts and emphasized the tool is filterable by age and race/ethnicity.
Several members asked whether differences in discharge destinations by race and ethnicity merited targeted outreach. One committee member flagged that the dashboard view showed a higher proportion of certain discharge outcomes for Asian and Pacific Islander patients and said, “That seems to be much higher than the others. I guess there would be a statistical difference…Whether we need to do something about that.” The presenter said the dashboard could be used to dig deeper into such patterns.
Members connected the dashboard review to prevention and education programs the county supports, including a six-week Living Well with Chronic Conditions class and existing blood-pressure screening partnerships with the American Heart Association. The presenter noted available county resources and recommended the dashboard feed into training and allocation decisions for EMS, hospitals, and county public-health programs.
The committee did not take formal action on the dashboard presentation but asked staff to provide follow-up data and to consider outreach strategies for groups identified in the dashboard as having differing outcomes.
