Accredited Chest Pain Center With PCI
Genesis-Good Samaritan’s accreditation as a Chest Pain Center means you can
be confident that we have the right skills, team, technology and equipment
available day and night to stop a heart attack in its tracks. With faster
diagnoses and rapid cardiac intervention, our experts can help prevent or even
reverse muscle damage to your heart.
What It Means to be an Accredited Chest Pain Center With
PCI
An accredited chest pain center with PCI means that a
hospital has dedicated interventional cardiologists, and cardiology and
emergency personnel trained in rapid response and treatment of heart attacks,
which ensures reduced heart muscle damage. Genesis-Good Samaritan has earned
chest pain center accreditation with PCI. The accreditation is provided by
the Society of Chest Pain Centers and is only
granted to hospitals that closely follow the American College of Cardiology and
American Heart Association’s recommendations to improve and save lives.
This accreditation is a coveted national seal of approval that verifies
Genesis is the leader in cardiac diagnoses and interventions in the southeast
Ohio area, offering the latest technology in the care and treatment of the
cardiac patient. Chest Pain Center Accreditation requires processes be in place
to reduce time to treatment during the critical early stages of a heart attack,
when treatments are most effective, and to monitor patients when it is not clear
whether they are having a heart attack. Such observation helps ensure that a
patient is neither sent home too early nor needlessly
admitted.
Why Choose Genesis If You're Having Chest
Pain?
If you’re having a heart attack, every second counts!
Your heart is like a big muscle that works continuously to pump and circulate
blood throughout your body. During a heart attack, blood supply is cut off from
the heart, usually as a result of a blocked vessel – and without a constant flow
of blood, the heart stops working. The sooner treatment begins to open blocked
vessels and restore blood flow to the heart, the better your chance for a full
recovery. Not every hospital can offer you the state-of-the-art diagnostic
testing and on-site interventional options that are available at
Genesis:
- 24 hour on-site angioplasty/coronary intervention
- 24 hour diagnostic catheterization
- 24 hour open-heart surgery capabilities
