Heart Attack?
Don't wait to be sure. When you choose an Accredited Chest Pain Center, you're choosing a hospital that provides:
- Better care.
- Better prognosis.
- Better quality of life.
- Better communication.
- Better treatment.
Accredited Chest Pain Center
St. Luke’s is an accredited chest pain center from the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC), an international organization dedicated to eliminating heart disease as the number one cause of death worldwide.
Hospitals that have received SCPC accreditation have achieved a higher level of expertise in dealing with patients who arrive with symptoms of a heart attack. They emphasize the importance of standardized diagnostic and treatment programs that provide more efficient and effective evaluation as well as more appropriate and rapid treatment of patients with chest pain and other heart attack symptoms. They also serve as a point of entry into the healthcare system to evaluate and treat other medical problems, and they help to promote a healthier lifestyle in an attempt to reduce the risk factors for hear heart attack.
To become an Accredited Chest Pain Center, St. Luke’s engaged in rigorous evaluation by SCPC for its ability to assess, diagnose and treat patients who may be experiencing a heart attack. To the community, this means St. Luke’s has processes in place to meet the following strict criteria:
- Reducing the time from onset of symptoms to diagnosis and treatment
- Treating patients more quickly during the critical window of time when the integrity of the heart muscle can be preserved
- Monitoring patients when it is not certain that they are having a heart attack to ensure they are not sent home to quickly or needlessly admitted to the hospital
