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Local hospitals developing new procedures for strokes

By Debra Pressey
Sunday June 28, 2009

Robin Scholz

The emergency department at Provena Covenant Medical Center in Urbana.

SPRINGFIELD – Doctors know how important it is for someone who's suffered a stroke to get speedy treatment.

Now Illinois hospitals that are prepared to offer the best and fastest care to stroke patients are being joined in a new network of primary stroke centers, and other hospitals throughout the state are being encouraged to join them.

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