Marcus Foundation Gives $15 Million To Help Fight Scourge Of Strokes

The Marcus Stroke Network will feature a collaboration in stroke care among Atlanta’s Grady Health System, Emory University School of Medicine, Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Florida, and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.

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The Marcus Foundation has donated $15 million to create a network for stroke care to help reduce disability and death from the disease in the Southeast.

A wide swath of the South is known as the Stroke Belt, due to the 11-state region’s unusually high incidence of strokes and other forms of cardiovascular disease.

The Marcus Stroke Network will feature a collaboration among Atlanta’s Grady Health System, Emory University School of Medicine, Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Florida, and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.