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Trend: Moving stroke victims to best, not closest hospital

August 12, 2008 — 2:05pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Increasingly, paramedics are bypassing closer hospitals and taking potential stroke victims to the closest hospital with specialized expertise in stroke management. This approach is also becoming... Read more...

VA, DC begin routing stroke patients to centers

April 1, 2008 — 7:59am ET
In some states, ambulance crews who suspect that a patient is having a stroke are required to take the patient to a designated stroke center hospital (unless the closest is too far away). This... Read more...