{"id":2447,"date":"2008-03-10T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neurology\/divisions\/stroke\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:36:41","slug":"stroke","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neurology\/divisions\/stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC Hospitals Comprehensive Stroke Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/som-cell>\n

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The UNC Comprehensive Stroke Center\u2019s\u00a0multi-specialty care<\/a>\u00a0approach utilizes the expertise of a large group of physicians and staff with specialty training in the treatment of stroke. Stroke patient care is coordinated by a team of vascular neurologists and neuro-intensivists who work closely with emergency medicine physicians, neurosurgeons, neurointerventionalists, neuroradiologists, vascular surgeons, cardiologists, physiatrists, neuro-trained nurses, and stroke ancillary care specialists (physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, respiratory therapists, care managers, and social workers).<\/p>\n

Acute stroke care is available 24\/7\/365 and is provided to medically-eligible patients by an on-call acute stroke team. The team evaluates patients for acute treatments, such as intravenous thrombolysis, catheter-based interventional procedures, and surgical treatments. The team also screens patients for inclusion in clinical studies and trials of the latest experimental stroke therapies.<\/p>\n

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The UNC Medical Center has a strong track record of quality and excellence in stroke care and has maintained the Joint Commission Disease-Specific Certification as a Certified Stroke Center since its founding in 2004. In 2012, the UNC Medical Center became the first hospital in the Southeast to receive the Joint Commission Advanced Certification as a Comprehensive Stroke Center, confirming UNC Medical Center\u2019s position as a national leader in stroke care.<\/p>\n

In 2025, the UNC Comprehensive Stroke Center once again received the American Heart Association\/American Stroke Association\u2019s Get With The Guidelines Gold Plus Achievement Award<\/a>\u00a0along with the\u00a0Target: StrokeSM<\/sup> Honor Roll Elite Plus<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll<\/a> awards.\u00a0Hospitals receiving the Gold Plus award must achieve 85% or higher compliance with all Get With The Guidelines\u00ae-Stroke Achievement Measures and 75% or higher compliance with five or more Get With The Guidelines\u00ae-Stroke Quality Measures for two or more consecutive years.<\/p>\n

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To qualify for the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite, hospitals must meet quality measures developed to reduce the time between the patient\u2019s arrival at the hospital and treatment with the clot-buster tissue plasminogen activator, or\u00a0t-PA<\/a>, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat\u00a0ischemic stroke<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hospitals performing thrombectomy<\/a>\u00a0for ischemic stroke measuring Door-To-Device (DTD) times in at least 50% of applicable patients within 90 minutes for direct arriving and within 60 minutes for transfer qualify for the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Advanced Therapy designation.<\/p>\n

UNC Hospitals also received the Association\u2019s Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll award. To qualify for this recognition, hospitals must meet quality measures developed with more than 90 % of compliance for 12 consecutive months for the \u201cOverall Diabetes Cardiovascular Initiative Composite Score.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Get With The Guidelines\u00ae (GWTG) quality improvement programs collect data on patients admitted to the more than 2,400 nationwide participating hospitals with atrial fibrillation, heart failure, a stroke, heart attack, or who experience a cardiac arrest while in the hospital.<\/p>\n

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