The New York State Coverdell Stroke Program (Coverdell)
Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Program
In 2001, Congress appropriated funds to establish the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry (NASR), now referred to as the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Program (PCNASP), named after Georgia Senator Paul Coverdell who died of a stroke while serving in Congress. The goal of the Coverdell Program is to develop high quality stroke systems of care to save lives and prevent disability and death. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides support to state health departments to monitor care delivered to stroke patients and improve the quality of stroke systems of care.
New York State Coverdell Stroke Program
The Coverdell Stroke Program is a data-driven quality improvement program within the New York State Department of Health (NYS DOH) addressing stroke. The program has been awarded funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Program (PCNASP) since 2012. The New York State Coverdell Program aims to support the development of comprehensive stroke systems to achieve improvements in prevention, pre-hospital/EMS, in-hospital care, post-hospital care and community education to prevent and reduce the burden of stroke. For more information on stroke burden, please see the CDC Stroke Death Rate map below.
New York State is one of 13 states funded by the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Program. Other funded states include Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. The New York Coverdell Program engages in statewide quality improvement activities that expand and strengthen the New York State Stroke Designation Program. The Coverdell Program develops and implements a focused Quality Improvement program that:
- Uses quality improvement strategies to identify and resolve gaps in stroke systems of care;
- Increases quality reporting of data on stroke care indicators from EMS, hospitals and post-acute care;
- Uses quality improvement to identify and implement strategies to eliminate disparities in stroke care;
- Develops both aggregate and hospital-specific reports on stroke outcomes; and
- Provides technical assistance to support data quality assurance and stroke systems of care.
There are 85 hospitals in New York State that have chosen to voluntarily participate in the Coverdell Stroke Program, going above and beyond stroke designation requirements, to improve stroke systems of care in their communities. A list of participating Coverdell hospitals can be found below.
- Albany Medical Center
- Arnot Ogden Medical Center
- Brookdale Hospital and Medical Center
- Buffalo General Medical Center
- Cayuga Medical Center
- Columbia Memorial Health
- Crouse Hospital
- Ellis Hospital
- FF Thompson
- Flushing Hospital
- Geneva General Hospital
- Glens Falls Hospital
- Good Samaritan Hospital of Suffern
- Good Samaritan University Hospital
- Guthrie Corning Hospital
- Guthrie Cortland Medical Center
- Guthrie Lourdes Hospital
- Huntington Hospital
- Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
- Kenmore Mercy Hospital
- Lenox Hill Hospital
- Long Island Jewish - Forest Hills Hospital
- Long Island Jewish Medical Center
- Long Island Jewish Valley Stream (Franklin)
- Maimonides Medical Center
- Mercy Hospital of Buffalo
- Mercy Hospital, Catholic Health
- Montefiore Medical Center- Moses
- Montefiore Medical Center- Mount Vernon Center
- Montefiore Medical Center- Weiler
- Montefiore New Rochelle
- Mount Sinai Brooklyn
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- Mount Sinai Morningside
- Mount Sinai Queens
- Mount Sinai South Nassau
- Mount Sinai West
- Mount St. Mary's Hospital
- Nassau University Medical Center
- Newark-Wayne Community Hospital
- Nicholas H Noyes Memorial Hospital
- North Shore University Hospital
- Northern Westchester Hospital Center Association
- Northwell Mather Hospital
- NYC Health & Hospitals - Bellevue
- NYC Health & Hospitals - Kings County
- NYC Health & Hospitals -Jacobi Medical Center
- NYC Health & Hospitals- Lincoln
- NYP (New York Presbyterian) Allen Hospital
- NYP Columbia Presbyterian
- NYP Lower Manhattan Hospital
- NYP Weill Cornell Medical Center
- NYP Westchester (Lawrence Hospital)
- NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn
- NYU Langone Hospital - Manhattan
- NYU Langone Hospital- Long Island (Winthrop)
- NYU Langone Hospital- Suffolk
- Phelps Hospital - Northwell Health
- Plainview Hospital
- Rochester General Hospital
- Rome Health
- Samaritan Hospital
- Saratoga Hospital
- Sisters of Charity Hospital
- St. Barnabas Hospital
- St. Catherine of Siena Hospital
- St. Charles Hospital
- St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center - Roslyn
- St. John Riverside Hospital - Andrus Pavilion
- St. Joseph Hospital
- St. Joseph’s Medical Center
- St. Peters Hospital
- Staten Island University Hospital - North Campus
- Staten Island University Hospital - South Campus (Prince's Bay)
- Stony Brook Southampton Hospital
- SUNY Downstate Medical Center (Health Sciences University)
- Syosset Hospital
- The Brooklyn Hospital Center
- UHS Wilson Medical Center (United Health Services Hospitals, Inc.)
- Unity Hospital of Rochester
- Upstate University Hospital
- UR Medicine Jones Memorial Hospital
- URMC Strong Memorial Hospital
- White Plains Hospital
- Wyckoff Heights Medical Center
- Wynn Hospital
Interested in learning more about the Coverdell Program?
Contact the New York State Coverdell Stroke Program at Coverdell@health.ny.gov
