Accreditation and Certification

St. Mary’s Regional Comprehensive Stroke Center has been awarded certification as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC), a national independent accreditation organization recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Certification confirms that St. Mary’s is providing high quality care as determined by an independent, external process of evaluation.

The center has also received the Get With the Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association every year since 2011 for excellence in the treatment of stroke patients.

Hospitals designated as comprehensive stroke centers have the capabilities and expertise to treat even the most complex stroke patients, and they can do it 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

For more information about the Regional Comprehensive Stroke Center, call 304.526.1281.