REACH Health: Stroke care within REACH, McDuffie county, GA

Exceptional delivery of Stroke Care in a remote Emergency Department, McDuffie County, Georgia.

Each year, approximately 795,000 stroke cases are registered in the United States. 96 to 98% of these cases do not receive timely stroke treatment because of insufficient access to neurological expertise at the local hospitals. Considering that stroke is the leading cause of disability and the third leading cause of death, the ability to treat patients quickly can limit or eliminate the long term costs and complications associated with stroke.

REACH Health is shifting the paradigm of stroke care by enabling hospitals to bring the highest standards of stroke care right to the patient, thereby reducing treatment time and healthcare costs.

REACH Health's technology provides physicians with an integrated suite of decision support tools, patient images, and live audio/video all over the Web so they can treat the patient remotely, using just a PC, regardless of distance. While the national average for onset to treatment times for stroke is 145 minutes, physicians using REACH have been able to reduce treatment time to 128 minutes.

The REACH solution fosters:

• Better care and outcomes for patients in underserved areas

• Well-informed stroke consults with decision support algorithms

• Increased revenue opportunities with stronger referral networks

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