Every minute in which a stroke is untreated, the average patient loses 1.9 million brain cells. Each hour in which treatment fails to occur, the brain loses as many neurons as it does in nearly four years of normal aging i . Metro Health, an affiliate of University of Michigan Health, reduced stroke treatment door-to- needle time from 53 minutes to 28 minutes, saving each stroke patient roughly 48 million brain cells and greatly improving the probability of surviving a stroke without major disabilities. They accomplished this by changing the way teams communicate in support of care delivery for stroke patients. Metro Health has been a Primary Stroke Center since 2005. It is also a Level II Trauma Center with Stage 7 Accreditation from HIMSS Analytics and is a certified Comprehensive

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