What's Your Heart's Real Age?
Are you young at heart? Or have lifestyle factors or family history made your heart old beyond your years?
Take Santa Rosa Medical Center's free heart risk assessment to find out your heart's relative age and to learn more about your personal risk factors. You'll also receive tips to help you take control of your heart health and an instant report to share with your doctor.
Taking good care of your heart can help reduce your risk of heart disease and help you live a long and healthy life. The heart care team at Santa Rosa Medical Center is with you every step of the way - from preventive screenings and lifestyle support, through minimally invasive treatments and life-saving emergency care.
Why Choose Us?
You can't take chances when it comes to your heart. Santa Rosa Medical Center is with you every step of the way - from helping you create a heart-healthy lifestyle to providing life-saving treatment during heart-related emergencies. The cardiac care team focuses on treating disorders of the heart and vascular system so that patients can enjoy the best health and quality of life possible.
- Dedicated, experienced, board-certified cardiologists and allied health professionals
- Accredited Chest Pain Center by the American College of Cardiology
As an accredited Chest Pain Center, Santa Rosa Medical Center has shown a commitment to quality patient care by meeting or exceeding an extensive set of stringent criteria. To maintain accreditation, our heart care department has processes in place designed to:
- Focus on you, your needs and your heart health
- Reduce the time from chest pain onset to diagnosis and treatment
- Treat heart attack patients quickly during the critical window of time when heart muscle can be preserved
- Ensure thorough training of Accredited Chest Pain Center personnel
- Integrate the emergency department with the local emergency medical system
- Support community outreach programs that educate the public to promptly seek medical care if they display symptoms of a possible heart attack
Our Services Include:
- Diagnostic and imaging technology to find heart disease early, when it's most treatable
- Cardiac catheterization, or coronary angiogram, including radial artery catheterization
- Interventional cardiology using minimally invasive and non-surgical techniques including percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)
- Blood tests
- Stress tests
- Electrophysiology studies, electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) and transesophogeal echocardiogram (TEE)
- Holter monitors
- Nuclear medicine scans such as positron emission tomography (PET), PET/CT scans, or thallium or myocardial perfusion scans
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