AWARDED FOR STROKE CARE EXCELLENCE

Four Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) hospitals have been cited by national associations for stroke care excellence. Westchester Medical Center, Good Samaritan Hospital, MidHudson Regional Hospital and HealthAlliance Hospital have each earned the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association”™s Get with the Guidelines^® Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for 2021. The award recognizes each hospital for ensuring stroke patients receive excellent care based on the latest evidence-based scientific guidelines. The hospitals were also appointed to the Get with the Guidelines Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll. 

Additionally, Westchester Medical Center and Good Samaritan Hospital attained Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Status from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. To qualify for this recognition, each hospital met quality measures developed to reduce the time between patient arrival at the hospital and treatment with tissue plasminogen activator or r-tPA, a therapy for for treating ischemic strokes, which are caused by blood clots.
Westchester Medical Center is certified by New York state as a Comprehensive Stroke Center, a designation that represents the most advanced stroke treatment available in a given geographic area. 

Our WMCHealth stroke care teams work in concert for the administration of timely stroke care,” said Ji Chong, M.D., a vascular neurologist and director of stroke at Westchester Medical Center. Under her guidance, the stroke program at Westchester Medical Center now has a stroke specialist caring for each patient 24 hours a day, seven days a week.