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When the Steve and Krista Howard Heart and Vascular Center opened, South Florida Baptist answered our community's need for better heart care in Plant City. Our heart and vascular center is the first of its kind in our area - offering state-of-the-art diagnostic services, including diagnostic heart catheterization and interventional heart and vascular procedures.
Staffed by expert physicians and highly trained technologists, the Center was specially built for the cardiac patient with specialized recovery rooms, top-notch cardiovascular technology and dedicated waiting areas for the patients' loved ones. The Center also provides an array of diagnostic and therapeutic services for the treatment of vascular disease, such as peripheral artery disease.
Want to know if you're at risk for heart disease? Learn more about our screening packages. And be sure to check out the American Heart Association's website for more information about heart health, diseases and treatment.
Working with an experienced staff of nurses and technicians, our interventional cardiologists at South Florida Baptist Hospital perform diagnostic catheterizations in our Heart and Vascular Center. A cardiac catheterization is a procedure where a catheter is inserted into an artery in your wrist or groin and guided to your heart. Once there, the catheter measures the pressure of the blood in the chambers of the heart and takes images of your heart to determine any blockage. The results of the diagnostic catheterization can helps the physicians determine if the patient has heart disease.
A highly skilled, professional staff help people with cardiac or pulmonary disease look better and feel better through medically supervised fitness programs. Participants receive education on their disease and work with the staff to identify individual risk factors. A three-phase program provides step-by-step care that parallels the patients' recovery from illness. During exercise, individuals are monitored with advanced telemetry that alerts the staff to any changes in their well-being and prints out periodic reports so the physician can monitor progress. Learn more about our cardiac rehabilitation program and our intensive care unit.
For information on pediatric heart and vascular services, see the Children's Heart Center at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital.
For more information about our cardiology services or a physician referral, please call (813) 757-1200 or find a doctor near you.
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Steve and Krista Howard Heart and Vascular Center
South Florida Baptist Hospital
301 N. Alexander St.
Plant City, FL 33563
Hours: 7:30am-5pm, Monday-Friday
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