GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL

The mission of kearney's good samaritan heart center is to provide advanced, comprehensive care close to home. Opened in 1990 with the first cardiac catheterization lab in outstate nebraska, the good samaritan heart center has evolved into a full service cardiac and vascular care center providing all adult cardiac and vascular procedures once found only in metropolitan areas. In 2005, good samaritan was given official chest pain center designation by the society of chest pain centers and recognized for offering state-of-the-art heart care to its patients, becoming the first medical facility in the state of nebraska to receive this accreditation. Being an accredited center means that we follow stricter protocol-driven and systematic guidelines that allow a reduction in time to treatment during the early stages of heart attack, when treatments are most effective. It also enables us to better monitor patients when it is not clear whether they are having a coronary event, making sure our patients are neither sent home too early nor needlessly admitted.