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24/7 Cardiology

You don’t schedule a heart attack. That’s why Saint Vincent Heart Center cardiologists are on-site at Saint Vincent Health Center 24 hours a day seven days a week. Patients who come to the Saint Vincent Emergency Department with suspected heart problems receive prompt attention, testing and treatment from the region’s leading cardiac specialists.

Click below for a web streaming video, featuring Dr. MacKrell on the importance of 24/7 Cardiology at the Saint Vincent Heart Center.

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Click below for a web streaming video, featuring Sam Ward, MD in a health report on the importance of 24/7 Cardiology at the Saint Vincent Heart Center.

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Time is muscle. It’s valuable to have a cardiologist and a team onsite that can respond to cardiac emergencies very quickly. For the last four and a half years, when we’re on call, we stay in the hospital. We sleep here. We know that we’re saving a lot of lives.


James MacKrell, MD
Cardiologist
Saint Vincent Heart Center

Additional materials:

Download Angioplasty Quality Report (pdf)
Download About Your Cardiac Catheterization (pdf)

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