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East Chicago Resident Mrs. Lucy Guzman recently survived
a heart attack because of St. Catherine Hospital's
Chest Pain Center. She is pictured her with Clinical Nurse
Specialist Virginia Madrinan.
Lucy Guzman -
East Chicago, Mother of 12
Recently everyone in the Guzman household was sick with the flu. So when 81 year old Lucy got up at 7 a.m. to baby-sit her grandson and didn't feel well, she immediately thought she had the flu, too.
Guzman had something more ominous than the flu; she was suffering from a heart attack. But, because Guzman was surrounded by highly-trained, skilled professionals - from East Chicago's dispatchers to the EMT's to St. Catherine Hospital's Emergency department and Cath Lab staff - who knew what to do and when to do it - she survived to tell her story.
"I ended up with a stent in my heart," she says. "It's not something you'd ever expect, but when you feel sick, don't wait - get to the hospital immediately."
Guzman and her family live near the East Chicago fire station and family members who suspected something else was happening, called 9-1-1 right away.
"The EMT's were there almost immediately and began to give me medications, then they called ahead to St. Catherine," says Guzman."They were waiting for me at the hospital. When I got there, doctors and nurses began all kinds of tests.
St. Catherine Hospital's Chest Pain Center is accredited by the Society of Chest Paint Centers (SCPC). St. Catherine Hospital earned the distinction based on a rigorous evaluation of its cardiac care services and, for practices, guidelines and treatment during the critical first stages of a heart attack.
"I owe my wonderful care to the nursing staff who were really on the ball and the doctors who gave me undivided attention," Guzman says.
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