Heart Attack
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Call 911 for Sudden Chest Pain
If you have any sudden or unexplained chest pain, call 911 immediately.What is a Heart Attack?
Every year, more than one million Americans have a heart attack. Over 25% of those are fatal. When the blood supply to your heart suddenly becomes blocked, a heart attack occurs. If the blood supply isn’t restored quickly, part of the heart muscle will die due to lack of oxygen.
UR Medicine's Treatments for Heart Attack
Heart disease remains the number one killer in the U.S., and the best way to beat it is to prevent it. UR Medicine’s Preventive Cardiology Program offers the most advanced, proven methods for preventing heart disease and enjoying a healthy lifestyle.
Our program features:
Support in quitting smoking.
The Rochester metropolitan area and surrounding region's only Women’s Heart Program.
Diet and exercise programs to help you lose weight and reduce your risk.
Heart disease prevention for the whole family, including high-risk relatives.
Research and access to the most advanced approaches for preventing heart disease.
Patient Stories
Father Salmon
"I went into cardiac arrest during a meeting. And that put me in danger of brain damage."
Duff's Story
What Sets Us Apart?
Recovery from a heart attack depends on how quickly it’s treated. A key way to measure the speed of a facility is its "door-to-balloon time"—from when a patient with a heart attack arrives in the emergency department until that person's coronary artery is re-opened with a balloon catheter.
At UR Medicine Cardiac Care, we’ve optimized our process to cut door-to-balloon time to under 90 minutes, beating the national standard. Our speed in treating heart attacks places us in the top 10% of all hospitals in the country.
Our Heart Attack Team is on standby 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year, and we are one of the few heart centers in the country that has the ability to use temporary heart pumps to help a patient's heart through the period of most intense shock.
Other hospitals send us their most challenging cases. They trust us because they know we’re able to treat every kind of cardiac problem, from the simplest to the most complex.
We’re also leaders in clinical research. Our researchers have developed heart care advances and devices that are used around the world.
And we’ve created the Women’s Heart Program, because there are differences between women and men when it comes to heart problems. These include risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes. We’ve built an entire team of experts around personalized heart care for women.
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View All LocationsWe serve you in the Rochester metropolitan area and surrounding region.
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Clinton Crossings, Building G
2400 South Clinton Avenue, 1st Floor
Rochester, NY 14618
Noyes Memorial Hospital
111 Cara Barton Street
Dansville, NY 14437
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- Heart Block
- Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Cardiac Catheterization
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Coronary Artery Disease
- ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation)
- High Blood Pressure
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Cardiology
- Emergency Imaging
- Vascular and Interventional Radiology
- Surgery
- HeartSaver Hub Mobile Kiosk
- Women's Heart Program
- Stress Test
- Cardiac Imaging
- Holter and Event Loop Monitoring
- Nuclear Cardiology
- Heart Rhythm (Electrophysiology)
- Cardio Obstetrics Program