Community stories

Angels hospitals that have achieved platinum or diamond status may already be eligible for ESO Stroke Unit (SU) or Stroke Centre (SC) certification. A recently announced collaboration between the Angels Initiative and the ESO SU/SC Certification Committee will make it easier to navigate the road to accreditation.

It’s a fresh start for stroke care in Spain’s Communidad Valenciana where two landmark meetings observe the emergence of a community ready to play to its strengths.

It was a proud moment for the team from Duitama Regional Hospital when they became pioneers in a telestroke programme in Colombia’s remote Boyacá region. The brainchild of Dr. José Luis Bustos of the University Hospital San Rafael de Tunja, this project is now notching up world-class treatment times and saving lives.

An Angels Award has sparked a stroke care improvement campaign across Ecuador and put two trail-blazing doctors on the podium to lead change.

These are the tipping points – actions that in themselves can seem insignificant, but from which great changes become possible. We celebrate four “small” interventions that made a BIG impact.

Transforming stroke management at his public hospital in northern Bogotá, Colombia, has moulded this neurologist’s vision of quality healthcare for all in a caring society. In a new interview Dr Claudio Jiménez explains what love’s got to do with it.