DES MOINES, Iowa — MercyOne Medical Center – Des Moines is Iowa’s only advanced thrombectomy-capable stroke center. The Joint Commission, a nonprofit that accredits healthcare organizations, just recently reaffirmed that distinction.
Since 2017, the MercyOne Des Moines Stroke Center has offered the thrombectomy procedure. It involves pulling a blood clot out of a large vessel to restore blood flow.
This sometimes eliminates the stroke entirely, but at the very least reduces the damage of a stroke…