Six Vidant Health Hospitals Join Wake Forest Baptist Telestroke Network | Eastern North Carolina Now

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 WINSTON-SALEM, NC     Six of Vidant Health's hospitals are joining the Wake Forest Baptist Telestroke Network.

 Fully operational members include Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington, Vidant Duplin Hospital in Kenansville, and Vidant Edgecombe in Tarboro. Later this year, Vidant Bertie Hospital in Windsor, Vidant Chowan Hospital in Edenton and Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie will be integrated into the network.

 The central purpose of the Wake Forest Baptist Telestroke Network is to reduce death and disability caused by strokes. It accomplishes this by partnering with community hospitals to ensure that they have 24-hour access to Wake Forest Baptist's acute-stroke experts via two-way live video and audio consultation and image-sharing technology.

 The Telestroke Network's system employs highly specialized telemedicine robots and carts that allow a Wake Forest Baptist stroke expert to evaluate a patient at a member hospital and consult with emergency department doctors there in real time via the Internet. Together, the physicians can determine the best course of action to take.

"We are very pleased to begin this collaboration with emergency medicine physicians at Vidant Health hospitals, to provide rapid response when stroke is suspected," said Charles H. Tegeler, M.D., medical director of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Telestroke Network. "Telestroke is a service that strengthens the care provided in the local community while providing access to state-of-the-art acute stroke interventions. We find that about half of telestroke consults result in patients remaining at the community hospital where they are treated to recuperate near to family and friends."

 Wake Forest Baptist's stroke specialists, each with years of experience in the care of stroke patients, and additional training or board certification in vascular neurology, make up the largest team of stroke neurologists in the region. Since the Telestroke Network was established in 2009, consultations have been requested more than 2,200 times.

"We are excited to be able to bring this technology to our community hospitals and the patients they serve," said Todd Hickey, senior vice president at Vidant Medical Center. "This program offered by Wake Forest Baptist gives us the opportunity to utilize technology to deliver care immediately and partner with a team that can help us save more lives across eastern North Carolina."

 This collaboration is an example of the innovations being launched among members of Socius Health Solutions, LLC, the shared services organization formed in 2014 by Vidant Health, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and WakeMed Health & Hospitals.

 The other members of the Telestroke Network are Wake Forest Baptist Health — Lexington Medical Center, Wake Forest Baptist Health — Davie Medical Center, Alleghany Memorial Hospital in Sparta, Caldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir, Cannon Memorial Hospital in Linville, Carteret Health in Morehead City, Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, Frye Regional Medical Center in Hickory, Granville Health System in Oxford (in partnership with WakeMed Health and Hospitals), Iredell Memorial Hospital in Statesville, Lake Norman Regional Medical Center in Mooresville, Lenoir Memorial Hospital in Kinston, Watauga Medical Center in Boone and Wilkes Regional Medical Center in North Wilkesboro.

Vidant Health is a mission-driven, 1,439-bed health system that annually serves more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is made up of 12,000 employees, eight hospitals, home health, hospice, wellness centers, and Vidant Medical Group, a multispecialty physician and provider group with more than 420 providers in 80 practice sites. Vidant Health is affiliated with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. As a major resource for health services and education, Vidant Health has a mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina. For more information, visit www.vidanthealth.com.

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (www.wakehealth.edu) is a nationally recognized academic medical center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with an integrated enterprise including educational and research facilities, hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centers and other primary and specialty care facilities serving 24 counties in northwest North Carolina and southwest Virginia. Its divisions are Wake Forest Baptist Health, a regional clinical system with close to 175 locations, 900 physicians and 1,000 acute care beds; Wake Forest School of Medicine, an established leader in medical education and research; and Wake Forest Innovations, which accelerates the commercialization of research discoveries and specialized research capabilities of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and operates Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, an urban biomedical research and education community specializing in biotechnology, materials science and information technology. Wake Forest Baptist clinical, research and educational programs are annually ranked among the best in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
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