Community stories

April 2023 marks one year since the Angels Initiative received a warm welcome from the stroke community in Greece. A landmark meeting that took place around the halfway mark gave impetus to the advancement of stroke care quality in Europe’s second-oldest population.

The initial goal at this hospital in North Sumatra was to reduce their door-to-needle time to below 60 minutes. It took them just six months to reach an average door-to-needle time of 19 minutes and win the first of two WSO Angels diamond awards.

Zydus Hospital in Ahmedabad, India, holds eight WSO Angels diamond awards. Here, Dr Arvind Sharma, head of the hospital’s neurology department and WSO board member, discusses how quality monitoring helped them identify and address a gap in patient care.

Pâmela Godoy is an Angels consultant in Brazil. In January 2023, a surprise phone call showed her what it really means to leave your legacy. Now she wants others to know.

Torrecárdenas University Hospital in Almería shines with the brilliance of the only diamond awards in Andalusia. But the light that matters comes from two bright spots – a neurologist devoted to optimising stroke care, and a nurse who believes in data-driven improvement.

Seeing is believing. The updated RES-Q dashboard provides a compelling argument for implementing Angels-recommended key priority actions in the hyperacute phase.