Rural Stroke Gold 2025 Award

Copiah County Medical Center Awarded American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines - Stroke Rural Recognition Gold Award

People who live in rural communities live an average of three years fewer than their urban counterparts and have a 40% higher likelihood of developing heart disease and face a 30% increased risk for stroke mortality — a gap that has grown over the past two decades. , Copiah County Medical Center is committed to changing that.
For efforts to optimize stroke care and eliminate rural health care outcome disparities, CCMC has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Rural Recognition Gold award.
The award recognizes hospitals for their efforts toward acute stroke care excellence, demonstrated by composite score compliance to guideline-directed care for intravenous thrombolytic therapy, timely hospital inter-facility transfer, dysphagia screening, symptom timeline and deficit assessment documentation, emergency medical services communication, brain imaging and stroke expert consultation.