Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Teaming Up to Provide Stroke Care

The Problem

Hazleton General Hospital is committed to providing compassionate, patient-centered, quality health care services and to the ongoing development of healthier communities. We decided to focus on the care of our stroke patients, utilizing evidence-based standards of care to provide the necessary interventions to expeditiously begin treatment of our identified stroke patients. This included timely completion of a CT scan of the brain and also having the availability of specialized services, including neurosurgery and neurology.

Administration at the hosptial was very interested in providing our community with a service that allowed us to treat our stroke patients "at home" in our own community hospital and rehab unit. We decided to pursue this by becoming a primary stroke center in Northeastern Pennsylvania, focusing on the quality care given to our stroke patients.

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