TIME IS BRAIN

Stroke is a medical emergency as serious as a heart attack. Receiving medical attention within the first three hours may be the difference between life and death, a complete recovery, or a lifetime of disability.

That’s why Leesburg Regional Medical Center has an emergency fast-track system known as Code Stroke. With this system, a response team performs neurological exams, blood tests, and CT scans within minutes of a patient’s arrival in the emergency room. Thus, they are quickly diagnosed and promptly treated.

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“Calling a Code Stroke in our emergency department sets the wheels in motion to improve service time for stroke care and follows the important timeis-brain rule,” said Mary Beth Morris, stroke coordinator of Central Florida Health Alliance.

Cancer Institute is Lake County’s first cancer care provider to offer patients Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) for cancer treatment. SRS is a nonsurgical form of radiation therapy that delivers high doses of radiation to small tumors with expert precision. As a result, there’s less chance of surrounding healthy tissue being damaged, and patients experience improved outcomes.

“We are proud to be able to offer this treatment locally, which reduces the burden of travel on our patients and provides them with advanced care in coordination with their local community physicians,” said Anudh Jain, a radiation oncologist at Florida Hospital Waterman.