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Ark. Code Ann. § 20-9-1004

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Acts 2005, No. 663, § 1.

The Acute Stroke Care Task Force shall:

(1) Make recommendations to the State Board of Health consistent with the intent and purpose of this subchapter;

(2) Pursue both public and private funding to further the intent of this subchapter; and

(3) Develop standards and policy recommendations considering, but not limited to, the following: Methods for raising public awareness of the prevalence and treatment considerations for strokes;

(4) The professional development of emergency medical services professionals to identify victims of potential stroke;

(5) The professional development of emergency room and hospital personnel to identify and treat victims of potential stroke;

(6) Methods for encouraging the use of thrombolytics, clot-busting drugs, or other accepted or emerging treatments, when appropriate;

(7) Methods for ensuring that a comprehensive range of stroke recovery services are available to Arkansans as they recover physical and mental functions affected by a stroke;

(8) Methods for developing stroke treatment centers; and

(9) Methods for developing a stroke registry for Arkansas.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.