Suffolk County Health Department
Grants St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center $21,000
Smithtown, New York - Suffolk County Health
Department granted St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center $21,000
to enhance the Cardiac Catheterization Lab.
The Cardiac Catheterization Lab at St. Catherine’s
has provided the community with access to Primary Coronary
Intervention (PCI) for the past three years. PCI is the emergent
revascularization of a patient experiencing an acute myocardial
infarction, or heart attack, via balloon angioplasty and stent
deployment.
The grant has greatly enhanced the Emergency Department and
the Cardiac Catheterization Lab with a monitor that offers
superior continuous cardiac monitoring for patients requiring
angioplasty. The new equipment allows prompt intervention
in the hospital, preserves cardiac functions, returning patients
to productive lives and will significantly lower hospital
length of stay statistics and medical costs.
Patients admitted through the Emergency Department, usually
with the complaint of chest pain, are promptly triaged as
possible PCI candidates. They are then connected to the monitor,
which is capable of recording cardiac rhythm disturbances
that frequently accompany heart attacks. The monitor is maintained
during the emergency department assessment, through transport
to the catheterization lab and angioplasty procedure, and
transport to the Cardiac Care Unit, while maintaining seamless,
safe care. The new monitor has greatly enhanced the lab’s
ability to provide superior-level care to the local community.
St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center is a member of Catholic
Health Services of Long Island and is devoted to providing
advanced healthcare, in an environment of compassion, to its
patients and their families. The Medical Center sits on a
110-acre campus and includes a 318-bed acute care hospital,
a 240-bed nursing home, a 298 unit senior housing facility,
and a medical office building. For additional information
please call (631) 870-3444.
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Contact: Karla Mason
Karla.mason@chsli.org
(631) 862-3523
Fax (631) 862-3943
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