How Lehigh Valley Hospital’s Stroke Center Saves Your Brain

Our Stroke Team gives you the quickest and most accurate diagnosis and treatment

Lehigh Valley Hospital’s Stroke Team is geared toward fast and accurate diagnosis and immediate treatment. The team includes neurologists, neurosurgeons and specially educated nurses.

Stroke is a serious medical problem, and treatment and recovery requires a large team. In addition to the Stroke Rapid Response Team, doctors, nurses and other professionals from many specialties are here for you during your recovery. This team can provide treatments you can’t receive at other hospitals.

For example, our neurointerventional radiologists can insert a catheter directly into a blood clot in the brain of a stroke patient to deliver clotbusting drugs. This lifesaving therapy is done in only about 20 medical centers nationwide.

Other members of the stroke treatment team include:

• Neuroradiologists
• Neurosurgeons
• Emergency services
• Critical care intensivists
• Vascular surgeons
• Cardiologists
• Physiatrists
• Specialized nurses
• Occupational, physical and speech therapists
• Good Shepherd Stroke Rehabilitation Program in Allentown and Bethlehem

The team includes physical, occupational and speech therapists, physiatrists (physicians specializing in rehabilitation and physical medicine), social workers and others, with support services for patients and families.

When you’re ready to go home

After you leave the hospital, you may need help at home, either for a short time or permanently. Lehigh Valley Home Care can provide a wide range of services in your home. Our goal is to help you become as independent as possible. We can help with:

• Skilled nursing care
• Physical therapy
• Speech therapy
• Occupational therapy

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