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MV Heart Institute marks 15th year

UTICA — The Mohawk Valley Heart Institute (MVHI) is celebrating its 15th anniversary of cardiac services. The first open-heart surgery was performed at the institute on Oct. 17, 1997.

In its first year, MVHI performed more than 325 open-heart surgeries and had 8,000 inpatient and outpatient rehab visits. In 1999, MVHI began its angioplasty program, and, in 2001, opened a catheterization lab in 2001.

By its fifth year, MVHI had completed 2,319 cardiac surgeries and 4,474 coronary angioplasties.

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To date, MVHI has performed more than 51,286 cardiac catheterizations, 18,406 angioplasties, 6,635 cardiac surgeries, 9,731 electrophysiology procedures, and seen 86,634 outpatient cardiac-rehab visits.

The MVHI is a collaboration between St. Elizabeth Medical Center and Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare.         

 

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