Accredited, Certified Primary Stroke Center
Stroke Team Available 24/7
Accredited as a Certified Primary Stroke Center and holding the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval, Lima Memorial’s main campus offers the most advanced care for patients experiencing a stroke.
Lima Memorial is staffed with a stroke team 24/7 to quickly initiate the use of acute stroke therapies. Primary Stroke Centers are known to have reduced morbidity and mortality and improved long-term outcomes.
If you are experiencing signs of a stroke, including numbness, confusion, severe headaches, one-sided arm or leg weakness, slurred speech or have trouble walking or seeing, call 911 immediately. Time is brain.
Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award
Lima Memorial Health System has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award for its commitment to ensuring people experiencing stroke receive timely, appropriate treatment based on nationally recognized, research-based guidelines, ultimately helping to save lives and reduce disability.
Get With The Guidelines brings the expertise of the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association into hospitals nationwide, helping ensure patient care is aligned with the latest research and evidence-based guidelines. Get With The Guidelines - Stroke is an in-hospital program designed to improve stroke care through consistent adherence to these guidelines, which can minimize long-term effects of stroke and help prevent death.
Lima Memorial Health System also received the American Heart Association’s Target: StrokeSM Elite Plus award. To qualify for this recognition, hospitals must meet specific criteria that reduce the time between an eligible patient’s arrival at the hospital and treatment with thrombolytic therapy.
Lima Memorial also received the American Heart Association’s Target: Type 2 Diabetes™ Honor Roll award. Target: Type 2 Diabetes aims to ensure patients with Type 2 diabetes, who might be at higher risk for complications, receive the most up-to-date, evidence-based care when hospitalized due to stroke.
Signs of a Stroke
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