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Clinical Cohort

Clinical Cohort

Clinical Cohort

"Better connections between professionals can mean better connections to care for stroke survivors."

What Is the Clinical Cohort?

The Nebraska Stroke Association’s Clinical Cohort brings professionals together across those settings to strengthen communication, share resources, identify gaps, and improve connections throughout the stroke system of care.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Tell Me More About the Clinical Cohort?

The Nebraska Stroke Association Clinical Cohort is a statewide network of professionals and organizations involved in stroke care, rehabilitation, recovery, and community support.

The purpose of the cohort is simple: help Nebraska’s stroke professionals stay connected.

Stroke survivors often move through several different systems from emergency care and hospitalization to rehabilitation, outpatient therapy, primary care, and long-term community support. The Clinical Cohort creates a place for the people working in those settings to share information, identify gaps, and build stronger connections across the stroke continuum.

What is the purpose?

The Clinical Cohort helps NSA and participating professionals:

  • strengthen connections between hospitals, rehabilitation providers, outpatient services, and community resources
  • share programs, services, educational opportunities, and referral resources
  • identify gaps in stroke care and recovery across Nebraska
  • better understand the needs of rural and underserved communities
  • encourage collaboration between healthcare systems and community partners
  • improve awareness of resources available to stroke survivors and caregivers
  • identify opportunities for education, outreach, and future statewide projects

The cohort is not intended to replace hospital stroke committees, professional organizations, or existing healthcare partnerships. Instead, it provides a statewide connection point where those groups can learn from one another and work together when appropriate.

Who Can Participate?

The Clinical Cohort is open to professionals and organizations whose work intersects with stroke care or recovery, including physicians, nurses, stroke coordinators, case managers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, rehabilitation professionals, social workers, behavioral health providers, home health professionals, outpatient providers, critical access hospitals, telehealth organizations, universities, researchers, EMS agencies, and community partners.

You do not have to work exclusively in stroke care to participate.

What Does Participation Look Like?

Members may be invited to:

  • participate in periodic virtual cohort meetings
  • share updates, resources, programs, or concerns from their organization or region
  • help identify unmet needs
  • contribute expertise to specific projects or educational initiatives
  • connect with other professionals when opportunities for collaboration arise

Members can participate at the level that makes sense for their role and organization.

What is the Cost to Participate?

There is no cost to participate in the NSA Clinical Cohort.

The cohort is designed as a collaborative statewide resource. Participation does not require NSA membership or a financial commitment.

What Do I Gain as a Members?

Connection
Meet professionals working across Nebraska’s stroke system of care.

Information
Learn about programs, resources, education, and services available across the state.

Collaboration
Find opportunities to work across organizations and disciplines.

A Voice
Help identify what Nebraska communities and stroke professionals need next.

Why NSA?

The Nebraska Stroke Association is uniquely positioned to bring together the clinical and community sides of stroke.

Our role is not to direct clinical care. Our role is to connect people, resources, and organizations across the stroke journey so that professionals know what is available and survivors and families have clearer paths to support.

Our Impact This Year

  • People Reached and Counting

    50,000

  • Dollars Raised

    $110,000

  • Years Serving Nebraska

    41

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