The Challenge For stroke victims, every minute counts. Yet when a stroke victim in a rural area arrives at the local hospital, the help they need may still be far away. That’s because most small rural hospitals do not have a neurologist on staff who can diagnose the patient and prescribe clot- busting medication (tPA), which must be administered within four to five hours of the stroke’s onset. As a result, the patients are often transpo

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