Several McLeod Health hospitals were recently recognized by the American Heart Association’s 2025 Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Quality Achievement Awards for their commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines.

The American Heart Association presented the following recognitions to:

McLeod Regional Medical Center: Stroke GOLD Plus with Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll; Stroke Honor Roll

McLeod Health Seacoast: Stroke GOLD Plus with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite

McLeod Health Loris: Stroke GOLD Plus with Target: Stroke Honor Roll

Get With The Guidelines-Stroke was developed to assist healthcare professionals to provide the most up-to-date, research-based guidelines for treating stroke patients.

McLeod Health Loris and McLeod Health Seacoast also recently received recertification affirming its hospitals are equipped to provide care to patients with acute stroke symptoms who seek life-saving treatment from the emergency department. The certification, granted by DNV GL Healthcare, designates them as Acute Stroke Ready.

These McLeod Health hospitals were some of the first in the state of South Carolina to become Acute Stroke Ready by DNV, a certification body that helps hospitals achieve excellence by improving quality and safety through hospital accreditation.

McLeod Regional Medical Center is certified as a Primary Stroke Center by DNV. McLeod was the first hospital in the region to be named a certified Primary Stroke Center in 2014.