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Hospital's new heart center opens its doors
By Times Staff Writer
Published February 1, 2006
St. Anthony's Health Care has opened its new outpatient heart center, the final step in a three-phase plan to help meet the growing need for cardiac care.
The 48,000-square-foot facility marks the completion of a multimillion-dollar upgrade in cardiovascular services. The three-story center, at 560 Jackson St., is connected to the hospital by a pedestrian bridge.
It offers an outpatient cardiac catheterization lab, cardiac nuclear medicine imaging lab, external counter pulsation and outpatient echocardiography. Physician offices, including the Heart & Vascular Institute of Florida, also are located in the center.
The hospital recently earned state approval to perform emergency angioplasty procedures. It is one of three hospitals in south Pinellas County approved to perform the procedure. St. Anthony's also is one of three hospitals in the state with approval to perform emergency angioplasty procedures under a new exemption law passed by the state Legislature in 2004.
The hospital will install a 64-slice CT scanner this summer, the first in south Pinellas County. The technology will reduce the need for many patients to undergo diagnostic heart catheterizations.
The 405-bed nonprofit hospital was founded as a ministry of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany in 1931. It is the only faith-based hospital in Pinellas County.
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