Cardiovascular Diseases

Why choose UVa for Stroke Care?

UVa provides a full range of services for neurological and cardiovascular care, and offers special expertise in the diagnosis, stabilization and treatment for all stroke patients.

For patients with ischemic (clotting) strokes who can get to UVa within three hours, our team is skilled in giving intravenous tPA and has a record of good results.

Click here to see UVa's quality indicators for stroke.

Recognition

  • UVa is one of only eight JCAHO-designated Primary Stroke Centers in Virginia, and provides all the elements listed by the 2003 Brain Attack Coalition recommendations. Members of UVa's Stroke Team are specialists in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with stroke.

    Click here to see JCAHO's list of certified facilities.

Innovative Treatment and Technology

UVa has a team of caregivers- ready and waiting 24/7 to deliver care to stroke victims.  

  • The UVa stroke team includes:
    •  neurologists who specialize in treating stroke
    • emergency room physicians
    • vascular and minimally invasive neurosurgeons
    • interventional neuroradiologists
    • a neuropsychologist
    • social workers
    • specialized nurses and other professionals.

Click here to find doctors at UVa who treat stroke.

Click here to read more about stroke.