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SCRMC teams with Regions hospital for rapid access to advanced, life-saving care/technology for heart attacks
St. Croix Regional Medical Center is now partnering with Regions Hospital to provide heart attack patients access to the St. Paul hospital’s cardiac care catheterization lab in less than 90 minutes. There, doctors can quickly perform an angioplasty to open an obstruction or narrowing in the arteries of the heart. According to many studies, this type of Level I cardiac care significantly reduces rates of death, recurrent heart attack, or disabling heart attack-related complications. SCRMC is the only area hospital to offer patients access to this life-saving Level I care.
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Services available at the St. Croix Falls Clinic include:
• On-site non-invasive cardiology care
• Evaluation of symptoms and risk factors for ongoing patient care management
• Pacemaker and cardiac defibrillator
services (Click here
for more information)
• Testing and interpretation of common tests, including
EKGs, exercise treadmill, coronary angiography, and electrophysiology
studies.
• Nuclear medicine
• Echocardiograms
• Stress testing
• Transesophageal echocardiograms
• Next-day scheduling for PT or PET CT scans
• Immediate access to the Regions Cardiology Clinic, Arrhythmia
Clinic, and Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Clinic
Physician to physician communication
St. Croix Regional Medical Center’s five Internal Medicine specialists work closely with Regions Cardiologists Dr. Glenn Nickele, Dr. Steve Riendl, and Regions Electrophysiologist, Dr. Marco Guerrero, to ensure seamless care for patients. Thanks to this new partnership, Medical Center doctors:
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have virtually immediate and hassle-free communication
with Regions heart specialists
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are able to access a cardiologist or other specialist
24 hours a day, 7days a week, in 15 minutes
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Dr. Steven Riendl |
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Dr. Glenn Nickele
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Dr. Marco Guerrero
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SCRMC Internal
Medicine Specialists
• Dr. Jim Kravig
• Dr.
Jim Wallace
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Rapid access to advanced treatment
Thanks to this partnership, SCRMC patients now have immediate
and convenient access (if needed) to advanced treatment at
Regions Hospital, including:
• Angioplasty
• Bypass surgery
• Heart valve replacement or repair
• Pacemaker implants
• Heart defibrillators
Regions Hospital of St. Paul provides emergency and scheduled
inpatient and outpatient cardiology services, including urgent
angiogram, and primary angioplasty round-the-clock every day
within 60 to 90 minutes.
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