15 hospitals join American Heart Association, Stryker stroke initiative

Fifteen U.S. hospitals have joined the American Heart Association’s newly established Hemorrhagic Stroke Surgical Quality Improvement Initiative. The hospitals will collaborate to identify, adopt and amplify a standardized care model for intracerebral hemorrhage across the U.S. 

The initiative receives financial support from Stryker, according to a July 14 news release from the American Heart Association. 

The 15 participating hospitals are:

• Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center (Milwaukee)
  
• Cleveland Clinic
  
• DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital
  
• Eden Medical Center (Castro Valley, Calif.)
  
• Hackensack Meridian Health Jersey Shore University Medical Center (Neptune, N.J.)
  
• Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital (Indianapolis)
  
• Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center (Houston)
  
• Montefiore Medical Center-Moses Campus (New York City)
  
• Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (Hershey, Pa.)
  
• SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital
  
• The University of Kansas Health System (Kansas City)
  
• UCI Medical Center (Orange, Calif.)
  
• University Medical Center of El Paso (Texas)
  
• Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital