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November 11, 2021

Comprehensive Stroke Center in Lexington, KY

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A comprehensive stroke center is a hospital that
provides the absolute,

complete, fullest, evidence-based, most contemporary
stroke treatment options and you need to be able

to have a robust multidisciplinary team to help take
care of the variety of conditions that can come in and

cause stroke and then also to help ensure that we are
providing them with rehabilitation that will give them

the best chance of making a good recovery.

It's fully end-to-end treatment of stroke care from the
onset of the stroke symptoms to return to normal life.

That's the goal and that's why we
do the things that we do here.

Stroke networks are relationships that are built
between hospitals to help ensure the efficient triage

and transfer of patients who might benefit from being
transferred to a comprehensive stroke center.

So we have outreach programs and we have technology
that we've helped to deploy to various satellite

hospitals throughout the state.

If a suspected stroke comes into one of their
hospitals, we've helped them develop protocols that

will allow them to quickly and efficiently identify
those patients, and that's extremely important,

especially here in rural Kentucky, it's very,
very important that those local hospitals know what

to do and where to send those patients when they come
in with a stroke because when it comes to stroke,

time is brain and that's really what this is all about.

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Baptist Health Lexington: Comprehensive Stroke Center

The comprehensive stroke center, located in Lexington, Kentucky, provides evidence-based stroke treatments and rehabilitation. Watch the video to learn more.

Comprehensive Stroke Center in Lexington, KY HealthTalks Transcript

Benjamin Newman, MD, Neurosurgery:

A comprehensive stroke center is a hospital that provides the absolute, complete, fullest, evidence-based, most contemporary stroke treatment options. You need to have a robust, multidisciplinary team to help take care of the variety of conditions that can come in and have caused stroke. Also, [we have] to help ensure that we are providing [patients] with rehabilitation that will give them the best chance of making a good recovery. It’s fully end-to-end treatment of stroke, care from the onset of the stroke symptoms to return to normal life. That’s the goal, and that’s why we do the things we do here.

Stroke networks are relationships that are built between hospitals to help ensure the efficient triage and transfer of patients who might benefit from being transferred to a comprehensive stroke center. We have outreach programs technology that we’ve helped to deploy to various satellite hospitals throughout the state. If a suspected stroke [patient] comes in to one of the hospitals, we’ve helped them develop protocols that will allow them to quickly and efficiently identify those patients. 

It’s extremely important, especially here in rural Kentucky. It’s very, very important that local hospitals know what to do and where to send patients when they come in with a stroke. Because when it comes to stroke, time is brain, and that’s really what this is all about. 

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