At Spring Valley Hospital Medical Center, stroke patients can benefit from a range of specially-designed services and treatment programs that focus on:

• Prevention and intervention
• Education
• Active stroke management by a multidisciplinary medical team
• Rehabilitation

By providing comprehensive stroke care, The Stroke Center at Spring Valley Hospital Medical Center can help patients address a number of physical, emotional and lifestyle issues.

The Stroke Response Team is immediately deployed to evaluate and treat stroke emergencies. The team-based approach enables us to provide streamlined treatment and services that can help improve patient outcomes. The team may include emergency physicians and nurses, neurologists, neurosurgeons, radiologists, registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and case managers.

Within hours of your initial diagnosis, you’ll be given a designated stroke care plan to help ensure that you receive the medical attention you need for the best possible outcome. When you are ready for discharge, our case managers will help arrange for any rehabilitation services you may need to help you continue your journey to recovery.

The Stroke Center at Spring Valley Hospital Medical Center has been certified as a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission. The Joint Commissions Certificate of Distinction for Primary Stroke Centers recognizes centers that make exceptional efforts to foster better outcomes for stroke care. To achieve certification for one year, stroke centers must demonstrate that it complies with standards, clinical practice guidelines and performance measurement activities. To maintain certification, a stroke center must attest to continued compliance with standards and evidence of performance measurement and improvement activities each year, pass an on-site review conducted every two years by The Joint Commission, and complete a bi-annual submission of an acceptable assessment of compliance by the organization.

Warning signs of possible stroke may include a combination of symptoms. Call 9-1-1 immediately if you experience, or witness someone else experiencing, the following:

• Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body
• Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or difficulty understanding others
• Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
• Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
• Sudden, severe headache with no known cause