Most Recent Decade of Enhancement & Expansion

The 90-year history of Sacred Heart as told on the preceding pages is one filled with inspiration, growth and an unending commitment of service to those most in need. Thanks to visionary leadership over the past decade, our commitment has resulted in an unparalleled time of regional growth and expansion. Here are just a few more of the highlights:

State-of-the-Heart Cardiac Care

Since performing the area’s first open heart surgery in 1972, Sacred Heart remains the region’s cardiac care leader, allowing patients to obtain quality heart care services close to home.

Opened in 2000, Sacred Heart’s Regional Heart and Vascular Institute combines renowned physicians and technical support staff with the latest diagnostic, treatment, and surgical services. We provide the latest treatments for coronary artery disease, heart failure, heart rhythm disorders and a variety of vascular or circulatory problems. For more information, visit www.sacred-heart.org.

Emergency Care When it Matters

When Sacred Heart opened its Emergency Room in 1959 at its original site on 12th Avenue, the hospital served 500 emergency patients in its first three weeks of operation.

The new 24-hour Regional Emergency/Trauma Center which opened in 2000 treats more than 70,000 patients a year. In 2001 we opened our expanded 10-bed Chest Pain Center in the ED. Sacred Heart also offers the area’s only Trauma Center equipped and staffed to treat both adults and children.

When Stroke Strikes

Sacred Heart’s Regional Stroke Center, which opened in the summer of 2005, features a specialized stroke intervention team at the ready 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our team’s leader is a neurologist with special training in the very latest techniques to restore blood flow to the brain.
For more information about Sacred Heart’s Regional Stroke Center, call (850) 416-2540.

Shaping New Lives

Sacred Heart Institute for Surgical Weight Loss, which opened in the fall of 2005, is a new service to help people who are clinically obese achieve significant weight loss safely through minimally invasive surgery. Dedicated to the highest level of patient safety, the program includes comprehensive physical and psychological evaluations, the safest surgical techniques available for weight-loss surgery today, care in a specially designed inpatient bariatrics unit, nutrition therapy, a support group, and a five-year follow-up program. The program, under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Lord, a fellowship-trained bariatrics surgeon, includes an extensive team of professionals, including a few former bariatrics surgery patients who bring their personal experience and perspectives to their roles with our patients.

Learn more about this service at www.sacred-heart.org/weightlosssurgery.asp.