Speed, expertise and technology make all the difference

Wuesthoff Medical Center-Rockledge and Wuesthoff Medical Center-Melbourne have both received a Gold Seal of Approval™ from the Joint Commission for Primary Stroke Center certification. This means that our medical and clinical staff follows specific criteria developed by the American Stroke Association and adopted by The Joint Commission to ensure proper care for stroke patients and to improve their recovery.

Keys to Wuesthoff's Stroke Treatment Program

Speed: Our emergency department springs into action the minute a stroke patient arrives because they know that treatments given during the first three hours after a stroke can greatly reduce or even reverse the effects of stroke. Speed is crucial to the best possible outcome.

Expertise: The most powerful means of reducing death and disability from stroke is through knowledge and application of current stroke treatments. Wuesthoff is proud of the high standard we have set to maintain the educational level and training of our specially trained and highly skilled health care providers that include physicians, nurses, EMS personnel and other medical specialists.

Technology: Wuesthoff seeks to identify strokes by using the most advanced testing and imaging technology available today – magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT). These advanced diagnostic tests can identify the type of stroke within minutes. Rapid imaging means rapid treatment and thus improved outcomes.