The 8,000 square-foot center is set to open in October. It is expected to offer state-of-the-art diagnostic services and treatments including cardiac catheterization, balloon catheter angioplasty and coronary and stent services, according to the report.
Hospital officials told the Courier-Tribune that in 2008, 864 patients left the community for diagnostic cardiac catheterization procedures, and 213 left the community to have coronary stents implanted.
Read the Plant City Courier-Tribune report on South Florida Baptist‘s new heart center.
