Community stories

Recognized by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, the nurse-driven stroke program at University Hospital Geelong shows how patients benefit when excellence meets empathy.

Spain’s Dr Francisco Purroy – Paco to his friends – is a softspoken change agent who influences others to embrace new ways of thinking and acting, through a calm, empathetic, and persuasive approach.

The public-spirited head neurologist at Armenia’s largest hospital heeds a call to lead change and to dream with all her heart.

Dr Francesca Romana Pezzella, new chair of the SAP-E, is building her legacy out of concrete actions delivered with compassion. She says (and the stroke community agrees): “I’m the kind of person who doesn’t step back.”

Bright spots lit the way to Angels Region status for this dramatically beautiful corner of southern Poland where Angels consultant Kasia Putyło led a nail-biting last-minute sprint to success.

In her work as an Angels consultant, she see multiple cases where, thanks to good good practices implemented in clinics, hospitals, and ambulance teams, patients have been given a new lease on life, writes Andrea Torres. This is one of them.