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Trent Bourland

Trent Bourland

Regional VP Rural Health at SSM Health; CEO of Coal County General Hospital in Oklahoma; rural health advocate and U.S. Air Force veteran.

Jun 10, 2026

7:22
Let's talk about what Telestroke is and then kind of walk us through your evolution of how this came to be.
7:28
Yes, Telestroke is an opportunity for direct access to larger hospital systems that have neurologists on staff or anybody that may be trained in neurology.
7:44
And so push of a button and within a few minutes you get one of these specialized individuals on the other side of the screen and they can do some evaluations and look at some scans.
7:56
and things of that to determine if this patient is able to receive the thrombolytics, whether or not they need to be transferred to a higher level of care.
8:07
All of the downstream points at that.
8:12
And so it's an opportunity to try and... provide the best access to care in these rural communities.
8:19
And so if you will, Rich, I'll just tell you.
11:54
So talk a little bit about how this benefits the hospital in terms of how they're able to be able to deliver services to their community and what that says to their community in terms of how they can create greater trust in their hospital's ability to impact their lives and the lives of their community.

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