Quality & Outcomes
Community Hospital Comprehensive Stroke Center
Public Reporting Summary
Community Hospital is Northwest Indiana’s only Comprehensive Stroke Center (CSC), providing advanced, life-saving stroke care with faster treatment times and superior patient outcomes. As an accredited CSC, the stroke team at Community Hospital offers:
- Advanced neurosurgical and neuroendovascular care
- High intensity medical management
- Specialized diagnostics and therapies
- 24/7 access to stroke experts
The team coordinates with local EMS, regional Primary Stroke Centers (PSC), local hospitals and healthcare facilities to ensure patients receive the appropriate level of care in a timely manner. This approach supports rapid triage and seamless transfer for patients requiring advanced stroke treatment.
Benefits of Comprehensive Stroke Center-level expertise
Certified by the Joint Commission in collaboration with the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association, Community Hospital’s CSC delivers highly specialized care for patients experiencing:
- Large ischemic strokes
- Hemorrhagic strokes
- Strokes from unusual or complex causes
- Strokes requiring specialized testing or therapies
- Strokes requiring multispecialty management
Advanced Neurosurgical & Neuroendovascular Services
Our specialists offer a full range of advanced procedures, including:
- Mechanical thrombectomy and thrombolysis for acute stroke
- Cerebral and spinal diagnostic angiography
- Endovascular stenting and coiling of aneurysms
- Treatment of arteriovenous malformations (AVM) and fistulas (AVF)
- Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and carotid artery stenting (CAS)
- Ventriculostomy placement
- Intracerebral hematoma removal
- Decompressive craniotomy
2025 Patient Volumes & Care Transitions
- 806 ischemic stroke (clot in the brain) patients
- 141 hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding in the brain) patients
- 956 patients transferred from regional hospitals for higher level of care
- 71% discharged home or to an acute rehabilitation unit
- Strong focus on restoring independence and returning patients to their communities
Publicly Reported Data
Outstanding Outcomes
Community Hospital consistently exceeds national benchmarks and internal goals, demonstrating exceptional performance in rapid stroke treatment, procedural safety and patient outcomes. We continually monitor our performance to ensure patients receive safe, effective, and timely care.
| Outcome Measure | 2025 Performance |
Goal |
|---|---|---|
| Successful clot removal during emergent thrombectomy | 88% | >80% |
| Stroke or death within 30 days after CEA/CAS (symptomatic) | 3.6% | <6% |
| Stroke or death within 30 days after CEA/CAS (asymptomatic) | 0% | <3% |
| Death within 30 days of unruptured aneurysm treatment | 0% | <3% |
| Outcome Measure | 2025 Performance | National Average |
|---|---|---|
| Hospital arrival time to initiation of intravenous thrombolytic therapy – 60 minutes or less | 97.1% | 90.2% |
| Hospital arrival time to initiation of intravenous thrombolytic therapy – 45 minutes or less | 86.8% | 74.2% |
| Hospital arrival time to initiation of intravenous thrombolytic therapy – 30 minutes or less | 52.4% | 39.3% |
| Door to Start of Device (DTD) within 60 minutes for patients transferred from an outside hospital OR within 90 minutes for patients presenting directly (24-hour treatment window) | 58.6% | 54.1% |
| Rate of rapid effective reperfusion from hospital arrival | 67.1% | 64.3% |
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