Page 10 - Summa Health Vitality Fall 2017

Providing Welcome
outstanding David Seaberg,
M.D., Chair of
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Emergency
Summa Health knows a trip to the emergency room can be stressful. Medicine at
That is why we are dedicated to serving the needs of our patients and Summa Health.
taking care of their health problems with the 24/7, high-quality, state-
of-the-art, supportive care and assistance required in an emergency
situation. Summa Health’s Emergency Room network spans throughout
Akron and surrounding areas.

A few reasons to count on Summa for expert emergency care:

Outstanding STEMI System. On Stroke cases that arrive via EMS go
average, Summa’s door-to-balloon straight to the CT scanner, improving
times are 26 minutes faster than the patient outcomes.
national average. In fact, we’ve stopped
heart attacks in as little as 11 minutes. Our stroke robots in the emergency rooms
at our Akron and Barberton Campuses allow
Accepts All Patients. All Summa entities stroke neurologists to remotely perform
accept most major insurance plans, and live, real-time audiovisual consultations with
all accept emergency patients whether the patient and emergency medicine team
or not they’re insured. to speed the delivery of clot-busting drugs
crucial to halt and reverse stroke damage.
Our three-day revisits stand at 3.39%,
lower than the national average (4.62%) Door-to-drug time for clot-busting stroke
medicine tPA is 49 minutes, significantly better
Dedicated space for behavioral health than the national benchmark of 60 minutes.
issues at our Akron Campus ED.