Funding Boosts Good Sam's Cardiac Services

Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center recently received a $125,000 grant secured by New York State Assemb. Robert Sweeney, D-Lindenhurst. 

The Medical Center requested the assistance of Sweeney to secure funding for equipment that would further improve its cardiac services. The grant funded equipment that includes both diagnostic and life-saving devices.

“Good Samaritan is an important institution in the community therefore being supportive of these efforts has been especially important to me,” said Sweeney.

According to Halsey Bagg, Assistant Vice President of Cardiology Services at Good Samaritan, the Medical Center annually performs 700 angioplasty, 2,700 diagnostic catherizations and 500 peripheral procedures.

“We have a talented staff, state-of-the-art facility and updated technology which enables us to perform the most complex cardiac procedures,” Bagg added.

Hospital officials said that Good Samaritan was the first community hospital in Suffolk County to perform primary angioplasty to swiftly open blocked arteries during a heart attack and was the first in the county to offer the combination of primary elective angioplasty and a cardiac rehabilitation program.