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Hospitalist gets first-hand experience in stroke care
May 01, 2023It happened not too long after his 44th birthday. Dr. Michael Pafford, an internal medicine doctor working as a hospitalist at Saline Memorial Hospital, wasn’t scheduled to work that morning. As he was getting up to go make coffee, Pafford started feeling nauseous and experienced vertigo. Then, when he spoke, he noticed his voice sounded different. At that point, he knew he had to go to the hospital — not as a doctor, but as the patient. When Pafford arrived at Saline Memorial, he was taken back to get a CT scan. The emergency department activated the AR Saves program, which is now known as Institute for Digital Health & Innovation (IDHI) Stroke Program. The IDHI Stroke Program is a network that connects neurologists with emergency departments across Arkansas to help diagnose and treat stroke patients via telemedicine.
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Saline Memorial Hospital receives recognition for heart attack care
June 02, 2022Saline Memorial Hospital has received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry Silver Performance Achievement Award for 2022. Saline Memorial Hospital is one of only 85 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor. It recognizes the hospital’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and signifies that it has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients to standard levels of care as outlined by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association.
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