Patient Stories

Daniel was lightheaded while splitting wood at home. After hearing Daniel’s symptoms and considering his family history, Dr. Pool scheduled a heart catheterization.

After being hit by a car, cyclist Brad Hollingsworth spent 20 days in the hospital. Brad chose Genesis Rehab and soon began driving, running, swimming and working two days a week.

Shelba Kane was taken to the Genesis by EMS suffering from chest pain. The Genesis medical team was able to save her life from a heart attack, and Shelba made a full recovery.

Martin Angler was in need of a lung transplant and took action to lose 100 pounds in order to be accepted into a lung transplant program.

David Mummey started pulmonary rehabilitation through the Genesis Black Lung Program.

Don Brauning was exercising at the Genesis Heart & Vascular Rehab Gym and didn’t notice anything was wrong. The heart care team at Genesis did notice and scheduled a stress test right away.

Tom Quinn didn’t have any symptoms and didn’t know he had a threatening heart condition called atrial flutter. Thanks to catheter ablation, Tom’s atrial flutter halted immediately, and he began experiencing improvements in areas he didn’t even know needed improvement.

Following the nearly two-hour surgery and month long healing process, Jerry had his cochlear implant activated. For the first time in years he could hear himself.

For 30 years, Char Bucci lived with heartburn. As time went by, Char’s hiatal hernia grew in size and severity. Surgery was needed, and Char felt ready to move forward.

JoAnn Grubb had been active her whole life, but the shortness of breath caused by her narrowing aortic valve was slowing her down. “We’d been following my heart valve problem for a couple of years and finally it was at a place where it had to be replaced,” said JoAnn. She went to Genesis HealthCare System to see a cardiothoracic surgeon on the advice of her regular cardiologist, Dr. Abdulhay Albirini.