Florida Hospital Zephyrhills Heart Institute Receives Distinguished Award - Only hospital in Tampa Bay area
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Zephyrhills, Fl- Florida Hospital Zephyrhills Heart Institute is the recipient of the 2010 HealthGrades Excellence Award for Coronary Intervention. Florida Hospital Zephyrhills is the only hospital in the Tampa Bay * region to receive this distinction.
“This award recognizes our continued commitment to our community,” says Gwen Alonso, administrative director of Florida Hospital Zephyrhills Heart Institute. “Our growing reputation is based upon providing leading-edge, comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services for patients with the most advanced stages of heart disease, so patients who have cardiac problems don’t have to travel away from home to get the care they need.”
Last year, Florida Hospital Zephyrhills Heart Institute performed over 2000 coronary intervention procedures, including diagnostic and interventional catheterizations and Electrophysiology.
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Florida Hospital Zephyrhills Heart Institute
Florida Hospital Zephyrhills Heart Institute was initiated in 2006 and provides comprehensive cardiac services to adults suffering from cardiac or cardiovascular disease. Our services include open heart surgery, coronary bypass grafting, cardiac valve repair and replacement, transmyocardial laser revascularization, thoracic aneurysm repair, Electrophysiology (EP), Ablation & 3D mapping, cardiac catheterization and cardiac diagnostics. The Heart Institute’s dedicated team of highly trained specialists includes board-certified cardiologists, electrophysiologists, cardiac surgeons and critical care nurses. The Florida Hospital Zephyrhills Heart Institute is the only nationally accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI in East Pasco County and has the only accredited electrophysiology staff in the state.
Florida Hospital Zephyrhills is a 154-bed, full-service, mission-based facility. As part of Adventist Health System, the largest non-profit hospital system in the United States, Florida Hospital Zephyrhills provides outstanding health care services that help to heal the whole person – body, mind and spirit. Known for its compassion and expertise, our clinical team of physicians, nurses, technologists and therapists deliver a full range of inpatient and outpatient services. Patients are assured of a true commitment to health care excellence, in a compassionate, caring and expert setting.
About HealthGrades: Millions of consumers and hundreds of the nation's largest employers, health plans and hospitals rely on HealthGrades' independent ratings of the nations 5000 hospitals, consulting and products to make healthcare decisions based on the quality of care. HealthGrades currently works with more than 400 hospitals nationwide and produces well-respected public studies of hospital quality in areas that include clinical excellence, patient safety and women's health. Tampa Bay Region is Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater CBSA as defined by the federal government’s office of Management and Budget.