Our Community

As a Comprehensive Stroke Center, UH strives to erase barriers to stroke care. Stroke policies and processes and multilingual services ensure that all patients have equal access to our services, and practitioners from medicine, cardiology, endocrinology, assist in the evaluation and treatment of the risk factors so prevalent in our patient population.

Our Community, Our Patients (2024)

In 2024, University Hospital’s Comprehensive Stroke Center discharged 688 patients, including transient ischemic attack (TIA). We serve the community of Newark and outlying communities.

Race and ethnicity

• Black or African American, non-Hispanic 64.7%
• Unable to determine * 25.5%
• Hispanic or Latino 19.2%
• White 8.4%
• Asian 1.4%
• American Indian or Alaska Native 0.3%

*Unable to determine = undetermined race plus no or undetermined Hispanic ethnicity. Because ethnicity is recorded separately from race, these figures add up to more than 100%.

Gender

• Male 53.9%
• Female 46.1%

Age

• 18 to 45 10.5%
• 46 to 65 49.4%
• 66 to 85 35.6%
• Over 85 4.5%

About 60% of patients were 65 or younger.

Source: Get With The Guidelines (GWTG).

All data presented on this website is University Hospital’s independent analysis of data gathered using the Get With The Guidelines Patient Management Tool.^TM It is not an analysis of the national Get With The Guidelines dataset and does not represent findings from the AHA Get With The Guidelines National Program.