TeleSpecialists, LLC

09/02/2026

Hollie Mahadeo was thirty-six when she had a stroke.

She does not remember much about the drive to the hospital or the moment the symptoms started. What she remembers is arriving.

"The doctor was right there waiting for me."

Every stroke coordinator knows what that sentence really means. It means someone had already made the call, already activated the team, already set everything in motion so that a board-certified neurologist was on the screen and reviewing before the doors opened. It means the clock that started in Hollie's brain was being answered by people who understood exactly what was at stake.

That is not luck. That is a stroke program working the way it was built to work, with a coordinator who trained for it and a neurologist who was there when it counted.

Hollie went home to her family. She got her life back, and she got it back whole.

This is the work you do every day, and it is why we answer every time you call.

Saving Lives. Together.

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09/01/2026

How current does a perfusion scan need to be before you treat on it?

That question ran through our recorded session on the 2026 guidelines, now available on demand.

"A perfusion scan is a snapshot. It is not a guarantee." Its shelf life shortens the further a patient sits from 4.5 hours. A patient at hour 12 who has worsened slightly, while the team works through thrombectomy candidacy, raises a question nobody enjoys. Is the scan still current enough to treat on?

The recommendation in the session was protocol first rather than case by case, because a decision made at the bedside without one carries risk the program never agreed to take.

Nima Mowzoon, MD, MBA, and Darshana Amin, MD, work through it alongside the imaging bottlenecks, the two-workflow problem, and the documentation standard.

Watch on demand: https://bit.ly/4ch0q00

If your program has written a rule for re-imaging in the extended window, we would be interested to hear where you landed on it.

08/28/2026

Dr. Jacob Sambursky recently joined AdventHealth's nursing in-service day to walk through the updated AHA/ASA stroke guidelines, with a focus on extended window thrombolytics.

The best part was the room itself. Nurses drove the conversation with questions grounded in what they see at the bedside every day.
Stroke care changes fast. The teams closest to the patient are the ones who make those changes real.

Thank you to the AdventHealth team for having us, it was truly a great event.

08/25/2026

"Following through, and doing what you say you're going to do matters over here."

That is David Theroux, CEO of Hendry Regional Medical Center, a critical access hospital in rural Florida.

He is not describing a product. He is describing a standard.

In rural stroke care, the distance between a promise and a patient is very short. A team says it will be there. Then a patient arrives at 3 a.m. with symptoms that started forty minutes ago, and the promise is either real or it is not.

Hendry Regional built a stroke program where it is real. Their nurses, their physicians, their protocols, their decisions. We answered every time they called.

The results were presented at ISC 2026 through the GWTG-Stroke Registry:

Median door-to-needle time improved from 63 minutes to 44 minutes.
GWTG-Stroke composite score rose from 74.9 percent to 95.1 percent.

Behind each of those data points is a person who got treated faster in the town where they live.

That is the work. Do what we said we would do, when we said we would do it, and let the hospital lead its own program.

Building solutions. Together.



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08/19/2026

You lead. We guide.

Your stroke program did not come out of a box. Your team built it around the community you serve and the workflows you already run.

That does not need reorganizing. It needs reach. What we bring to it is protocol guidance that has earned us over 400 partner hospitals across 36 states, and board-certified specialists on the line and available to you every hour your doors are open.

Ownership of your stroke program stays exactly where it belongs. With you.

Building Solutions. Together.

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08/04/2026

Stroke quality measures are nursing measures.

Door-to-needle time. Documentation completeness. Composite scores. Each one depends on a nurse who knows the next step and has specialist support to take it.

Hendry Regional Medical Center built its stroke program on that principle.

Median door-to-needle time fell from 63 minutes to 44 minutes. The GWTG-Stroke composite score rose from 74.9 percent to 95.1 percent. Both results were presented at ISC earlier this year.

Dakota Redd, CNO at Hendry Regional Medical Center, named what changed for the nursing team:

"One of the most important gifts you can give a nurse is confidence."

Confidence is what a quality program produces when board-certified specialists reach the bedside in minutes and nurses are never left to carry the decision alone.

Strong metrics are built by supported nurses. That is where a stroke program starts.



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07/20/2026

"It is really important that they feel seen and heard."

For Nisha Pradeep, DO, neurology is about more than diagnosis. It is about meeting patients who may have waited years for care and making sure their first visit feels like someone is finally in their corner.

This is what digital healthcare looks like when it is built by physicians: real connection, real expertise, and a helping hand for every patient.

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07/13/2026

The 2026 AHA/ASA stroke guidelines made headlines for one reason: the treatment window extended to 24 hours. That headline is worth understanding in full.

The extension applies to specific patients under defined imaging and clinical criteria. For conventional window patients, the 4.5-hour standard remains unchanged — and a separate update to front-end imaging protocols means programs that have not reviewed their workflows may not yet be aligned with the current standard of care.

On July 15, TeleSpecialists presents what the guidelines actually require: what changed, what did not, and the operational framework to meet them. Built in practice across more than 400 partner hospitals since 2014.

Free and open to all. Register here: https://tes.broadcastmed.io/live/4/page/13?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=2026_q2_june_aha_guidelines_webinar&utm_term=attendees

07/08/2026

Is your facility operationally ready for the 2026 AHA/ASA Stroke Guidelines?

That is the question TeleSpecialists is helping hospitals answer. Our upcoming webinar covers the guideline updates most likely to affect your stroke program — and the operational steps required to respond.

Read the announcement and reserve your seat.

https://tstelemed.com/telespecialists-to-host-webinar-on-operational-readiness-for-the-2026-aha-asa-stroke-guidelines/?utm_source=meta&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=2026_q2_june_aha_guidelines_webinar_campaign_external_press_release

TeleSpecialists has announced the launch of its Outpatient Neurology Service Line.