The hospital’s stroke program can now provide swift service to residents of Dublin, Pleasanton, and Livermore who previously had to be transported elsewhere after suffering a stroke.
Stanford Health Care – ValleyCare’s hospital in Pleasanton, California, earned Joint Commission certification as a primary stroke center on Sept. 25, marking the inauguration of a new primary stroke center in the Tri-Valley area.
The Joint Commission, an independent private organization, surveys health care organizations throughout the United States, inspecting applicant institutions and programs from a number of different perspectives and employing numerous criteria to assess applicants’ total performance from the minute patients show up to the point of their discharge.