The National Stroke Association (NSA) has selected Mount Carmel Health System’s Stroke Outreach Team as the recipient of the 2014 Raising Awareness in Stroke Excellence (RAISE) Award in the Most Creative category.   Nurses, therapists, medics, retired school teachers and multiple stroke survivors make up the Mount Carmel Stroke Outreach Team , and they developed an interactive program to educate elementary school-aged children about strokes.  Students learn about the signs, symptoms, and recognition of stroke through five specific activites.  Janice Tootle, Service Line Vice President of Neuroscience at Mount Carmel Health System, said “Our Stroke Outreach Team has worked to create an extremely unique program that is producing great results.

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