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  "path": "/health/2026/04/13/all-the-bells-and-whistles-hospital-rolls-out-new-ambulance-for-stroke-patients",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-13T17:53:29.184Z",
  "site": "https://chicago.suntimes.com",
  "textContent": "<p>Kathy Baraban was babysitting three of her grandkids, the youngest of them only 2 years old, when she fell to the floor.</p><p>“I had lost the grip of the plates in my hand, went to pick them up, put them into the sink, and as I was putting them into the sink, I lost my balance and went down,” she said.</p><p>Baraban couldn't flip over onto her stomach. “I couldn’t move anything,” she said.</p><p>More than a month later, you would never know she’s a stroke survivor. Had she not been at her son’s home in Winfield at the time, the outcome could have been very different. Baraban received critical care in a special ambulance from Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital.</p><p>Almost a decade after launching it — the first Mobile Stroke Unit in Illinois — the hospital has rolled out a new, sleeker rig to diagnose and begin treating stroke patients beyond the confines of its emergency department. It’s the only MSU program in the state.</p><p>For more on this story, please visit <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.dailyherald.com/20260412/news/all-the-bells-and-whistles-hospital-rolls-out-new-ambulance-for-stroke-patients/\" target=\"_blank\" >DailyHerald.com</a>.<br></p>",
  "title": "‘All the bells and whistles’: Hospital rolls out new ambulance for stroke patients",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-13T17:55:27.334Z"
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