Newport-Mesa residents have a hospital in their own backyard that is best suited to treat them should they ever have a stroke, according to the Orange County Health Care Agency.
In a recent announcement by the county agency, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian was one of six county hospitals named to the Stroke-Neurology Receiving Center program. The system is designed to send people who have just suffered a stroke to a hospital where experts are standing by to give them the best treatment.
The county agency found Hoag was one of six that could best identify early that a person suffered a stroke and could offer immediate care from experts. The hospital offers 24-hour availability of neurologists, neurosurgeons, radiologists, nurses and emergency medicine physicians who are experts at managing stroke patients.
