Memorial Hermann
With stroke, time lost means brain lost. Getting to any Memorial Hermann hospital means you have entered the most comprehensive stroke network in the region. Our doors open up access to the region's only dedicated, on-site stroke team offering patients comprehensive treatment 24/7. Anchored by decades of industry leading research at the Mischer Neuroscience Institute in the Texas Medical Center, patients have access to the latest innovations in stroke treatments including clot busting drugs, such as tPA, administered by some of the pioneers in the field.
As an integrated system we insure that a patient is rapidly moved to the highest level of care necessary as efficiently as possible. Shared protocols allow us to uniformly identify stroke patients and treat them with the clot busting drugs necessary within the first three hours of stroke. For our smallest campuses we use technology to bring our world class stroke experts to the bedside.
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Stroke Network Provides Highest Level of Care Throughout the Region
At Memorial Hermann, we are deeply committed to providing acute stroke patients with the latest breakthrough treatments, including new clot-dissolving drugs. In fact, USA Today recently recognized the program for its level of care.
Three Memorial Hermann hospitals have earned the Gold Seal of Approval™ from The Joint Commission (TJC) for Primary Stroke Centers and Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center (TMC) has achieved the highest standard as a comprehensive stroke center.
Led by James C. Grotta, M.D., UT-Houston professor of neurology and medical director of the Neurovascular Disease Center at the Mischer Neuroscience Institute at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, the team receives more than $1.5 million annually in National Institutes of Health grants for stroke research.
These efforts make ours the largest and most comprehensive stroke network in the region. Our Memorial Hermann Stroke Network also enables Memorial Hermann Emergency Centers to receive stroke patients transferred via ground or Life Flight® air ambulance from hospitals lacking the capability or capacity to provide urgent treatment. This means that residents of Harris County and many surrounding counties have access to the most effective treatment in the critical first three hours following a stroke.
Our capabilities include the use of telemedicine technology to enable neurologists across the Memorial Hermann network to observe patients and assist with treatment from any location. By tapping network-wide expertise through the use of real-time imaging technology, physicians and staff at Memorial Hermann facilities are better able to:
- Distinguish acute stroke and stroke-related events from symptomatically similar conditions
- Collaborate and fully evaluate patients within the critical three-hour treatment window
- Interact and communicate in a virtual clinic environment
At any Memorial Hermann acute-care hospital, patients have access to the most integrated and comprehensive network of stroke care in the region.