Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Sask. sets provincial standard for stroke care

Five Hills has had a stroke pathway in the region for the past 10 years

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Lisa Parker, director of emergency ICU medical unit

and clinical education at the Dr. F.H. Wigmore

Regional Hospital, is seen at the hospital.

By Lisa Goudy

After three years of work from a province-wide team, Saskatchewan now has a provincial Acute Stroke Pathway map.

“This isn’t a huge change for us. We’ve had a stroke pathway here in Five Hills since 2006. So we’ve been following a plan very similar to this for 10 years already. We did a lot of ground breaking work back in 2006. So now this just brings it wider to the whole province,” said Lisa Parker, director of emergency ICU medical unit and clinical education at the Dr. F.H. Wigmore Regional Hospital.

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