Students interested in working with stroke patients now have an accredited facility close to campus where they can gain experience in the field.
On Monday, Sparrow Hospital officials announced the Sparrow Stroke Center, in collaboration with MSU HealthTeam and MSU’s departments of neurology and ophthalmology and Lansing Neurosurgery, is certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by the Joint Commission, a nonprofit organization that accredits health programs.
The center is the first in Michigan to be recognized, and one of about 20 in the nation, the hospital announced during a press conference Monday.
To earn the certification, the center was able to “demonstrate a multidisciplinary approach to stroke,” according to the release.
David Kaufman, chair of MSU’s Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology and chair of neurology at Sparrow Hospital, said MSU faculty and medical students, some of which become residents in neurology, work with the center.
“They do follow the stroke team around to learn from them, and then some of them go on to become young neurologists,” Kaufman said.
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