Bassett Healthcare Providing High - Level Treatment of Heart Disease to Patients in Rural Upstate  New York

Heart disease remains the number one cause of death in this country.  It has also known that patients who begin evolving a myocardial infarction, particularly a ST-elevation myocardial infarction, require immediate treatment - opening of the occluded vessel.  Their eventual outcomes, whether it be death, or re-infarction in the future, are directly related to the amount of time between the onset of pain and when the vessel can be opened by angioplasty, which is the preferred treatment for this variety of acute coronary syndrome.