OSU Wexner Medical Center works with community hospitals such as Coshocton Regional Medical Center
Contributed to the Coshocton Tribune
COLUMBUS - Coshocton Regional Medical Center is celebrating the 10th anniversary of being a member of the Telestroke Network, which made a big difference in the life of at least one local resident.
CRMC was one of three community hospital to join the network through Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in May 2011. The program now includes 27 hospitals across Ohio. The goal is to delivers critical expertise to patients suffering strokes.
“One of the major goals of the Telestroke Network is to increase access to advanced stroke care in regions of Ohio that don’t have neurovascular and neurosurgical physicians, said Dr. Deepak Gulati, a neurologist and stroke specialist at the OSU Comprehensive Stroke Center. When someone is taken to one of those emergency departments with stroke symptoms, experts are mobilized both there and a
May 12, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio – This month marks the 10th anniversary of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Telestroke Network that delivers critical stroke expertise to patients suffering strokes across Ohio.
“One of the major goals of the Telestroke Network is to increase access to advanced stroke care in regions of Ohio that don’t have neurovascular and neurosurgical physicians. When someone is taken to one of those emergency departments with stroke symptoms, experts are mobilized both there and at Ohio State through a ‘stroke alert,’” said Dr. Deepak Gulati, a neurologist and stroke specialist at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center Comprehensive Stroke Center.
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