SEMC is the official cardiac center for MVHS
The Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) has centralized all invasive cardiac services at St. Elizabeth Medical Center (SEMC) providing for greater efficiency in the delivery of care and further developing the centers of excellence for the system. SEMC has always been the center for cardiac surgery and now all cardiac catheterizations and angioplasty procedures will be done there exclusively.
“We are pleased that we can provide all cardiac catheterizations and angioplasty procedures at one centralized location,” said Hugh MacIsaac, MD, FACC, Cardiac Cath Lab and Interventional Cardiology medical director. “This change helps us to further develop SEMC as the MVHS Center for Cardiac Care.”
MVHS works collaboratively with emergency medical service (EMS) providers in the area to ensure potential heart attack patients present at SEMC. EMS is a partner of MVHS and has protocols aimed at getting a patient’s blocked artery open within 90 minutes of arrival at the hospital. Patients at the St. Luke’s Campus requiring a cardiac catheterization will be transferred to SEMC.
Non-invasive cardiac testing will continue at the St. Luke’s Campus and Cardiac Rehabilitation will remain at the Faxton Campus.
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Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare and St. Elizabeth Medical Center are affiliates under the Mohawk Valley Health System.
Erin Gigliotti
Manager/Media Specialist
Mohawk Valley Health System
egigliot@mvhealthsystem.org
315-624-5581