hy a Heart Center at St. Clair Hospital? The answer is timely intervention. Mere minutes are crucial to the survival of persons with the sudden onset of serious cardiac problems. The Heart Center at St. Clair provides the residents of the South Hills and surrounding communities with medical, surgical and interventional treatment for acute coronary syndromes, without losing precious time required for transportation to a downtown hospital. Cardiologists and cardiac surgeons are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide both scheduled and emergency cardiac care. Now in its seventh year of operation, The Heart Center has completed over 1,000 open heart surgeries. The Heart Center offers a full range of cardiac care services with all of the same sophistication, expertise, and resources as downtown hospitals and without the added stress of travel, parking, and traffic. In fact, The Heart Center surgeons are the same physicians who operate at Pittsburgh’s premier teaching and research facilities. More than 1,000 open heart surgeries have been performed at our state-of-the-art facility, and our patient outcomes are exceptional. At The Heart Center, our focus is on providing compassionate, personalized, quality care to patients and their families. As part of that objective, we offer our open heart surgery patients the added convenience of “one stop post-op,” which reduces stress on patients and their families by allowing patients to remain in the same room throughout their post-surgical recovery period. In addition to open heart surgery, The Heart Center offers a full range of in- and outpatient diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitation services, as well as a comprehensive array of screening, prevention, and educational programming. The Heart Center at St. Clair fulfills the Hospital's commitment to providing the best cardiac services to the community. The physicians' expertise, the advanced skill and training of the staff, and the latest in technology brings high quality care to patients -- right in their own community. And, we are focused on providing that care in a comfortable environment with the best possible service. The Heart Center is the embodiment of the Hospital's service creed -- Service with a Smile, Commitment to Community, Healing with Hospitality, and Caring with Compassion.