Sevaro: A Company Founded And Led By Vascular Neurologists
September 7, 2022
When your hospital partners with external care providers, you want to ensure that those providers have experience with the problems you face day in, day out.
Sevaro is revolutionizing the telemedicine field with true teleneurology and unprecedented connection times to a dedicated vascular neurologist.
That service comes with the peace of mind that Sevaro is a company developed by physicians, for physicians, with a full understanding of the pressures and demands of caring for patients with a broad range of neurological conditions.
How Sevaro Started
Becky Toney RN, BSN, SCRN, is the Director of Clinical Quality at Sevaro, a company name derived from the Sanskrit words for “selfless service”. Becky remembers that originally, telestroke services worked through a standard call center; messages were passed between the emergency room and the neurologist.
She recognized that this process wasted precious time.
For a stroke patient, literally every second counts. Each minute during a stroke, an AIS patient is losing roughly 2 million neurons until they receive treatment. According to the CDC, nearly 800,000 people suffer a stroke each year in the United States. 87% of these are ischemic strokes, which means blood flow to the brain has been blocked, and the brain is beginning to die.
Changing from the industry standard call center model to Sevaro’s proprietary OneCall technology means a hospital can connect with a vascular neurologist within 45 seconds. Improving patient outcomes is at the heart of everything Sevaro does, thanks to physicians and other clinicians devoted solely to neurology being at the helm.
An Evidence-Based Telestroke Model
We know that not all hospitals have adequate facilities or onsite vascular neurologists to deal with acute stroke patients. We also know that every second a patient goes without treatment is a risk of serious disability or death. That’s why our physician-led team created the emergent stroke care telemedicine solution, OneCall.
Unlike other telemedicine services that rely on messages passed from agent to agent, OneCall connects emergency responders directly with a seasoned, boarded vascular neurologist. Combine this with inpatient follow-up, physical therapy, outpatient follow-up clinics, and a full support program called My Stroke Journey, and this is a telestroke model that truly puts patients first.
Sevaro: Founded by Vascular Neurologists
Neurologists understand the impact a stroke has on the brain. During a stroke or transient attack (TIA), the brain ages 3.6 years every hour without treatment. This damaged and dying brain tissue cannot be recovered. This statistic is what drives Sevaro’s team to constantly innovate and improve the time-to-treatment.
For example, by thoroughly understanding every aspect of the workflows and through years of experience with thousands of acute neurology patients, Sevaro has been able to reduce the average time for a patient to receive tPA (tissue plasminogen activator) from 46 minutes to 23 minutes.
Employees at Sevaro have worked at over 100 hospitals, many of them in dedicated stroke care environments. They all understand that every second counts when dealing with stroke patients – but also the importance of compassionate care and understanding the unique needs of each individual patient.
Sevaro’s physicians are all boarded vascular neurologists with extensive on-the-ground experience. This allows them to support not only stroke patients but those complex and critical neurological conditions such as those caused by meningitis or cranial hemorrhages. These expert physicians can also assess EEG readings and provide remote interpretations.
Sevaro’s Culture
The company culture at Sevaro helps drive the innovation and excellence in service their partners have come to rely on. Weekly meetings help the team bond and reinforce the company core values of:
- Integrity
- Patient First
- Innovation
- Stewardship
- Gratitude
- High Touch and High Tech
Choose Sevaro as your trusted hospital partner, helping you enhance your stroke care and save time, save brain, and save lives.
