March 26, 2015, ST. LOUIS – SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital is one of only ten hospitals in Missouri designated a Level 1 Time Critical Diagnosis (TCD) Stroke Center, in information publicly released Monday by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
Based on laws enacted in Missouri in 2013, the TCD System is established for emergency medical care for patients with a trauma, stroke, or STEMI, a potentially fatal form of heart attack. In those guidelines, “patients who suffer a stroke, as defined by section 190.100 shall be transported to a stroke center.”
“We are extremely proud of this designation and overall, establishing these Level 1 centers will greatly help stroke patients in the region,” says Eli Feen, MD, SLUCare neurologist at Saint Louis University Hospital.
For more information, you can read our release here, catch more from the St. Louis Business Journal or listen to this story from KMOX’s Fred Bodimer.
