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 St. Francis Heart Center is located on the St. Francis—Indianapolis campus at South Emerson Avenue and East Stop 11 Road.
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The St. Francis Heart Center offers nationally recognized cardiac care close to where you need it – on the Indianapolis south side.
Built on a 30-year history of cardiac and vascular care, St. Francis Heart Center is south central Indiana’s only full-service cardiovascular center.
Located minutes from Interstate 65 and County Line Road, the St. Francis Heart Center is the home to Indianapolis’ first certified Chest Pain Evaluation Center and the Emergency Heart Attack Response Team, which reduces door-to-balloon time for heart attack patients. Research based on the EHART® protocol was published in the journal Circulation in 2007, and health care professionals in 38 states and 12 countries have contacted St. Francis to learn how this program can help their patients.
Other features of the St. Francis Heart Center include:
- Ongoing participation in heart valve and ventricular assist device (VAD) research studies
- Certified cardiac rehabilitation center
- The St. Francis Midwest Heart Valve Center
- On-site Cardiac Screening Center
- Vascular laboratory
- National training site for catheterization lab procedures, including carotid stent placement and endovascular AAA repair
Nationally recognized heart attack care
The St. Francis Heart Center regularly receives national honors for its cardiac care. HealthGrades, a national rating service, has given St. Francis a five-star rating in both the treatment of heart attacks and coronary interventional procedures and ranked among the best in the state for cardiology services. Vascular services at the Heart Center also received the 2008 HealthGrades Stroke Care Excellence Award.
The Heart Center has been awarded bronze and silver achievement awards from the American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines program. Patient satisfaction surveys place the Heart Center in the 99th percentile nationally.
The St. Francis Heart Center has been recognized by two major health insurance organizations for demonstrating adherence to the insurance company's criteria for quality and efficient delivery of cardiac care. It has been named a United HealthCare Premium Specialty Center as well as a Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care from Anthem insurance.
Chest Pain Evaluation Center reaccredited
St. Francis has been recognized by the Society of Chest Pain Centers (CPC) for exceeding quality-of-care measures in acute cardiac medicine.
St. Francis recently received Cycle II accreditation with PCI from the society. This designation is based on how well physicians and staff perform in reducing time to treatment during the early stages of a heart attack and in monitoring patients when it’s not clear whether they are having a coronary event.
St. Francis was first accredited in 2005—the first Indianapolis-area hospital to receive the Society of Chest Pain Center’s accreditation.
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