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Hospital wins Primary Stroke Center status
Bryan Realiza, coordinator of East Georgia Regional Medical Center's stroke and chest pain programs, exhibits one of the hospital's tele-stroke and tele-neurology carts in this file photo from January.
- photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
After a year of refining and monitoring its stroke care processes and with the addition of a tele-stroke program, East Georgia Regional Medical Center recently won certification as a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission and the American Stroke Association.