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When every moment counts for your loved one

As a Primary Stroke Care-designated facility, Nacogdoches Medical Center uses a multidisciplinary approach to ensure stroke patients are seen quickly by physicians and staff with advanced training in neurology to help eliminate or reduce the often devastating effects of stroke.

In addition to NMC’s neurologists, we also offer tele-neurology services at both NMC’s Nacogdoches and Shelby County Emergency Departments via video. For patients and their families, it means access to evidenced-based neurological care 24 hours per day/365 days a year. When it matters most, because with stroke, Time = Brain.

Nacogdoches Medical Center is also the only hospital in Nacogdoches to earn both:

  • The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval and
  • The American Heart Association / American Stroke Association’s Heart-Checkmark for Primary Stroke Center Certification

Warning Signs and Symptoms

  • Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body
  • Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding
  • Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
  • Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
  • Sudden, severe headache with no known cause

That's why it's so important to learn the signs and symptoms of stroke, and to learn to act F.A.S.T. to identify symptoms of a stroke:

Face: Ask the person to smile. Does one side of the face droop?

Arms: Ask the person to raise both arms. Does one arm drift downward?

Speech:  Ask the person to repeat a simple sentence. Are the words slurred? Can he/she repeat the sentence correctly?

Time:  If the person shows any of these symptoms, call 911 or get to the hospital fast. Every second counts because brain cells could be dying. 

Not every warning sign will occur in every stroke. And even if they do go away, these warning signs should not be ignored. Call 911 or your local emergency medical service number so an ambulance can quickly take the person to Nacogdoches Medical Center for stroke care. When talking to 911, an emergency medical service or the hospital, be sure to use the word “stroke” in order to possibly speed up a diagnosis. Every minute counts when treating a stroke, raising the number of brain cells that can be saved and chances for recovery.

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