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Chest Pain
Illinois hospital receives society's chest pain center accreditation
December 14th, 2004
The Society of Chest Pain Centers has granted the designation of Accredited Chest Pain Center to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Belleville, Illinois. St. Elizabeth's is the first hospital in the St. Louis, Missouri/East St. Louis, Illinois metropolitan area to receive this accreditation; it is the third accredited Chest Pain Center in Illinois and 70th in the nation. Heart attacks are the leading cause of death in the United States, with 600,000 dying annually of heart disease. More than 5 million Americans visit hospitals each year with chest pain. The goal of the Society of Chest Pain Centers is to significantly reduce the mortality rate of these...
Source: cancer weekly (2004-12-14)
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