In the Heart of Your Neighborhood
Everyone has a risk of developing heart disease—having a hospital with doctors you trust to help prevent heart disease and make an early diagnosis is essential. Since 1978, the cardiology staff at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital has put patients and families first. Today, our commitment to providing exceptional cardiac services to the residents of DuPage County continues to be our top priority. From prevention to state-of-the-art diagnostics, to surgery and rehabilitation, Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital has the advanced technology, experienced staff and clinical expertise for a comprehensive approach to cardiac care.

• Cardiac diagnostics
• Cardiac rehabilitation
• Congestive Heart Failure Program
• Prevention

Clinical Quality and Outcomes
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital is a leader in revolutionizing heart treatment. More than 40 board certified physicians, many who are recognized for their contributions to research and advancing patient care, provide cardiac services. Our high volume of complex and complicated procedures in all areas, including trauma and pediatric, demonstrate our successes and improved quality of life for our patients. For example, each year we perform:

• 350 open heart surgeries
• 3,000 catheterization lab procedures
• 200 pacemaker insertions
• 500 electrophysiology studies and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICDs)
• 900 angioplasties

As leaders in the newest interventional technologies, diagnostics and preventive techniques, the cardiology staff at Good Samaritan Hospital became the first in the Midwest to use new, innovative cardiac therapies -

• CHF Solutions System 100 device - a revolutionary new therapy that rapidly relieves fluid build-up, in a matter of hours rather than days, in patients with congestive heart failure. (page 10 of Health Advocate Magazine Winter 2003)
• Brachytherapy - Intracoronary Radiation treatment delivers a small amount of radiation into the artery preventing it from re-narrowing following an angioplasty or stent placement. (page 2 of Health Advocate Magazine Winter 2003)