In February, 2002, a community-based facility to treat heart disease became a reality with the opening of The Heart Institute at Jefferson Regional Medical Center. Ten years later, The Heart Institute is an award-winning center with a reputation for outstanding patient care, advanced technology and highly-skilled cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons who tackle the most complex cardiac cases.
Joe Downing of Jefferson Hills has worked in hospitals long enough to know that heredity can be a major risk factor for developing cardiac disease. It wasn’t until both his father and his mother’s sister underwent triple bypass surgery after suffering chest pains that he realized he needed to pay more attention to his own health.
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