Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach is in the top three hospitals in the southeast region of the United States, and No. 1 in Florida, for heart attack survival according to the most recent data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare, which compared data from 4,786 hospitals across the country.
The high heart attack survival rate is a result of the partnership between Mount Sinai and the City of Miami Beach. Through a collaborative effort that includes the city’s Public Safety Communications Unit (911 Center) and well-trained paramedics, who provide pre-hospital care, there exists a seamless, highly organized system of care for heart attack patients from the moment they call 911, to the time they are brought to the Mount Sinai emergency room and, ultimately, reach the cardiac catheterization lab to open the coronary artery.
