When someone who may be having a stroke is brought by EMS to New Hanover Regional Medical Center, a specialized medical team meets the patient at the door and immediately starts to evaluate their symptoms and make decisions about the next steps of care. That process, triggered by what’s called a Code Stroke, was launched a decade ago, and since then NHRMC has added specialists in neurointerventional surgery and been certified as a DNV-GL Comprehensive Stroke Center. NHRMC, now part of Novant Health, continues to improve its care of stroke patients by increasing access to treatments and looking for more ways to get acute stroke patients treatments more quickly.