TELESTROKE:
Mayo Clinic’s Telestroke
Program Equalizes Stroke Care
throughout Arizona
Because of a chronic shortage of specialists in
Arizona’s rural communities, patients who suffered a
stroke in Phoenix or Tucson used to be 10 times more
likely to receive the best possible care, in a timely
manner, than patients treated at rural hospitals. The
Arizona Department of Health Services and Mayo
Clinic – Phoenix, working with rural hospitals, have
solved that problem.
Bart M. Demaerschalk, MD
Director of the telestroke and teleneurology program, Mayo Clinic
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