Heart Center
The Heart Center at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center is the Tri-County’s Only Comprehensive Cardiovascular Program.
The Heart Center has been recognized by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization, in its' twelfth annual Hospital Quality in America study. The Heart Center received HealthGrades' Cardiac Surgery Excellence Award, ranking it in the top 10% in the nation in Cardiac Surgery. HealthGrades annual study assesses patient outcomes, mortality, and complication rates at virtually all of the nation's nearly 5,000 non-federal hospitals.
In addition to this nationally recognized Cardiac Surgery, the Heart Center at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center provides the latest and most advanced treatments in cardiac care including cardiac catheterization with coronary angioplasty and stents. These advanced cardiac treatments ensure that life-saving technology and treatments are available right here in our community.
The American College of Cardiology and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have established guidelines for how soon a hospital must treat a patient having a heart attack once they arrive at the hospital. The guidelines call for a patient to be taken to the catheterization lab to have their artery opened within 90 minutes of arrival to the hospital. This is often referred to as the “door to balloon” time. Fort Walton Beach Medical Center’s Emergency Department and Catheterization Lab Team work closely together in meeting this standard of care. During 2009, the Medical Center’s Heart Attack Response Team’s average “door to balloon” time was 63 minutes, an improvement of 17 minutes over the 2008 average time of 80 minutes.
For patients recovering from cardiovascular surgery and interventional cardiology procedures, Fort Walton Beach Medical Center offers a cardiac rehabilitation program which assists the cardiac patient in achieving and maintaining a state of optimal health and daily living activities through education, regular exercise, dietary counseling and lifestyle changes. For more information about the cardiac rehabilitation program, call (850)315-7870.
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