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Broward Health Coral Springs Expands its Cardiac Program
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roward Health Coral Springs has expanded its “Combined with Broward Health physicians’ cardiac program with a state-of-the art cardiac clinical expertise, this new lab is a great example of catheterization lab. This new lab, which includes our commitment to enhance services for our growing four pre-and-post-procedure patient care bays and is community in Broward’s northwest corridor,” said equipped with the latest patient monitoring technology, Jared Smith, CEO of Broward Health Coral Springs. is part of the hospital’s initiative to provide patients with “The cardiac catheterization lab performs a variety of advanced and critical life-saving cardiac procedures diagnostic tests associated with cardiac and vascular close to home. diseases.” When it comes to heart care, time is of the essence. Smith said that from screening and diagnosing, to Having a cardiac catheterization lab at your community treating cardiovascular disease, the center’s goal is hospital allows physicians to quickly determine the next to help improve the overall health of the community, steps in treatment. particularly as patients will be treated closer to home. Broward Health Coral Springs anticipates meeting STEMI (ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction) criteria in 2021 so that the most acute heart attack patients will be able to receive critical interventional care. The new cath lab is the latest capital improvement made in cardiac care at Broward Health. The health system has a 50-plus-year history in advanced cardiac care, dating back to the 1960s when Broward Health opened the first follow-up pacemaker clinic in the country. In the 1970s, the first cardiac cath lab and open heart surgery took place at Broward Health. The healthcare system has been distinguished as one of the nation’s top centers for cardiovascular treatment and provides comprehensive clinical, surgical and rehabilitative care.
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