The hospital has requested permission from the Alabama State Certificate of Need Review Board as a last step in gaining full state approval for continuing to provide this service. Crestwood has been performing elective angioplasty since 2006 as part of the Atlantic Cardiovascular Patient Outcomes Research Team trials, a study to determine whether elective PCI can be safely performed in hospitals that do not offer open-heart surgery on site.
Crestwood was one of the first hospitals in the state to report a consistent door-to-balloon time of less than 90 minutes and currently averages at 72 minutes, while the national average is 123 minutes, according to the report.
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