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Healing the region: Cleveland Clinic Dr. Anthony Furlan helped pioneer a new stroke therapy by breaking down barriers between Northeast Ohio's Hospital Systems.(2005 ANTHEM IMPACT AWARDS)

Dr. Anthony Furlan, the head of I Stroke and Neurologic Intensive Care at the Cleveland Clinic, jokes that 10 years ago, he didn't know where the emergency room was.

"In most hospitals, stroke cases would come sauntering in two days, three days after their stroke," Furlan says. "There was no sense of urgency."

Strokes affect 700,000 people nationwide and about 6,000 in Cuyahoga County each year. Unlike a heart attack, stoke symptoms are subtle, and until about 10 years ago, there was no federally approved treatment that could be performed at its onset.

The advent of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)--an intravenous drug therapy which dissolves the deadly blood ...

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