The Heart & Vascular Institute at Sharon Regional

Open Heart Surgery

You no longer have to travel to Pittsburgh or Cleveland for open heart surgery. With the opening of The Heart & Vascular Institute at Sharon Regional, the most advanced care is minutes from home instead of 80 or 90 miles away. We've added respected surgeons from a world-renowned team, built new facilities and expanded our capabilities. It is an investment that brings state-of-the-art heart surgery to our community. And it makes Sharon Regional, already Mercer County's prominent center for comprehensive heart care, even stronger.

The Heart & Vascular Institute at Sharon Regional Health System is the only hospital in Mercer County with the advanced technology and expertise to perform:

• Open Heart Surgery
• Angioplasty
• High Risk Cardiac Catheterizations
• Other Advanced Heart Procedures
  

Sharon Regional exceeds national guidelines for heart attack care

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In addition, The Heart & Vascular Institute also offers:

Valve surgery, stents, chest pain emergency center, exercise stress tests, nuclear cardiology, SPECT scans, echocardiography, stress echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, pacemaker implants, pacemaker clinic, cardiac rehabilitation programs, cardiac wellness programs, pediatric cardiology clinics, cardiothoracic clinic, chronic heart failure program, 24-hour holter monitors, event monitors, ambulatory blood pressure monitors, electrocardiograms (EKGs), signal average electrocardiograms, heart healthy eating classes, and CPR classes.

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New Facilities

The Heart & Vascular Institute includes two new open heart surgical suites, a cardiovascular recovery and intensive care unit, waiting areas for patients and families, and a second cardiac cath lab. Sharon Regional already performs more than 1,000 cardiac catheterizations each year. With the addition of open heart surgery, Sharon Regional is the only hospital in Mercer County capable of performing low-risk and advanced cardiac catheterizations and angioplasty. These additional facilities make the care we provide even better. And they certainly make the lives of our patients and their families much easier.

A Tradition of Excellence

While The Heart & Vascular Institute may be new, our commitment to first-class, comprehensive heart care is anything but. Over the past 10 years, The Heart & Vascular Institute at Sharon Regional has enjoyed a number of firsts for this area.

Silver Performance Achievement Award

Sharon Regional's Heart & Vascular Institute was recently presented with the American College of Cardiology Foundation's NCDR-ACTION Registry Silver Performance Achievement Award for 2008 - one of only 93 hospitals nationwide to receive it. The award recognizes Sharon Regional's commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients.  To receive the award, Sharon Regional consistently followed the treatment guidelines in ACTION Registry- GWTG for 12 consecutive months. These include aggressive use of medications such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, aspirin, and anticoagulants in the hospital