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Neuroscience Center

Excellence and innovation create the best opportunities for hope and healing

The Neuroscience Center is where patients recover from brain or spine surgery, as well as many other medical conditions involving the nervous system. 

Our Stroke Center  is part of the Neurosciences Center and it’s making a major difference in the lives of people in our region:

  • We are the only hospital in the area to perform intra-arterial cerebral thrombolysis, a life-saving procedure that attacks blood clots in the brain.
  • We offer western Wisconsin’s only use of the life-saving clot retrieval system. In emergency stroke cases, this technology provides hope when the window of opportunity for conventional drug therapy intervention has closed. For more information, call us at 715-717-4315.

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Neuroscience Services

 

Patients and families turn to us for help with a wide range of conditions focusing on the spine and brain. Our Neurosciences Center team, and everyone we partner with at Sacred Heart Hospital, strives to provide you with the expertise and resources you need to recover as smoothly as possible.

Specialized programs:

  • Certified Stroke Center
  • Rehabilitation Services including speech, occupational and physical therapists
  • Education classes and support groups, including Parkinson’s and stroke 
  • Screening programs

Additional services include:
 

  • Respiratory therapists 
  • Registered dietitians
  • Pastoral care
  • Social workers

Our Team

 

Phillip J. Porter, MD
Wisconsin Brain and Spine Center

Kamal Thapar, MD
Wisconsin Brain and Spine Center

Our highly skilled team provides the most advanced level of care by partnering closely with other experts at Sacred Heart Hospital:

  • Our emergency department and radiology combine to enable our medical staff to rapidly evaluate patients using advanced neuro-imaging, which allows for better, faster, more comprehensive care.
  • Our rehabilitation services provide patients with specialized services like neuro-rehabilitation that improve a person’s ability to restore greater use of mind and body. The therapies offered are part of why we’re the only hospital in the region with a CARF-accredited inpatient rehabilitation facility.