08/25/2026
"Following through, and doing what you say you're going to do matters over here."
That is David Theroux, CEO of Hendry Regional Medical Center, a critical access hospital in rural Florida.
He is not describing a product. He is describing a standard.
In rural stroke care, the distance between a promise and a patient is very short. A team says it will be there. Then a patient arrives at 3 a.m. with symptoms that started forty minutes ago, and the promise is either real or it is not.
Hendry Regional built a stroke program where it is real. Their nurses, their physicians, their protocols, their decisions. We answered every time they called.
The results were presented at ISC 2026 through the GWTG-Stroke Registry:
Median door-to-needle time improved from 63 minutes to 44 minutes.
GWTG-Stroke composite score rose from 74.9 percent to 95.1 percent.
Behind each of those data points is a person who got treated faster in the town where they live.
That is the work. Do what we said we would do, when we said we would do it, and let the hospital lead its own program.
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