The first three days after a patient is admitted to a stroke care facility is called the hyper acute care, and it covers a time period from the moment the patient enters the hospital to the time he/she is out of imminent danger. ... This allows the doctor to decide if the patient needs surgery or thrombolysis. The average hospital stay in acute care for stroke patients is between four days (ischemic) and seven days (hemorrhagic). Survivors are generally transferred from acute care to an inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF), a skilled nursing facility (SNF) or a long-term acute care (LTAC) hospital. Some people who have a stroke recover quickly and can regain normal function of their body after just a few days. For other people, recovery may take six months or longer. No matter how long it takes you to recover from your stroke, recovery is a process. If the stroke occurs in the left side of the brain, the right side of the body will be affected, producing some or all of the following: Paralysis on the right side of the body. Speech/language problems. Slow, cautious behavioral style.