Primary Stroke Center with Intervention Capability

10/22/2021

Commonwealth Health Wilkes-Barre General Hospital is expanding their services to achieve certification as a Comprehensive Stroke Center. The goal is to provide the local community with the highest quality stroke care close to home when seconds count. The hospital is seeing a growing need for high acuity services like neurology as the local population ages.

The hospital has recruited Elwaleed Elnour, M.D., endovascular neurologist with the Neurosciences and Spine Group. Dr. Elnour is board certified in neurological critical care and is fellowship trained in neurological Endovascular Surgery. Effective immediately, he will be providing 24/7 coverage for stroke care at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, including mechanical thrombectomy and cerebral hemorrhage treatments.

This allows the hospital to immediately become a primary stroke center with intervention capability and puts Wilkes-Barre General Hospital on a trajectory to becoming a Comprehensive Stroke Center by the end of 2022.

Wilkes-Barre General Hospital has always set the bar high for stroke care and has consistently been certified as a Primary Stroke Center. Wilkes-Barre General Hospital's Comprehensive Stroke Program will include neurosurgery and endovascular interventions such as thrombectomy, angioplasty, coiling, stenting and neurological critical care. This will allow the hospital to offer resources necessary for improving survival and outcomes for all stroke patients.

The investment in these expanded capabilities acknowledges Commonwealth Health's commitment to providing patient-centered collaborative acute neurological and stroke care from the emergency department to neurological critical care to rehabilitation.

For more information on Dr. Elnour go to, https://www.commonwealthhealth.net/find-a-doctor/elnour-elwaleed-md-27626.