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Cardiac surgery team
members Melinda Gillespie,
James M. Brown, MD,
and Guerda Dominque.

MENDING HEARTS CLOSE TO HOME

The cardiac
surgery program
at University of
Maryland Prince
George's Hospital
Center provides
state-of-the-art
treatment, right
in your own
backyard
6  MARYLAND'S HEALTH MATTERS

W

hen Stacy Ashton was having a heart attack, she
was surprised to learn that her ambulance was

heading to University of Maryland Prince George's
Hospital Center (UM PGHC).

The 50-year-old elementary school principal in Montgomery

County hadn't expected her local hospital to have the advanced
cardiac services she needed. But UM PGHC turned out to be the best
place Ashton could have sought treatment. In fact, UM PGHC's coronary artery bypass surgery quality performance has been ranked
among the top 10 percent of cardiac surgery programs in the country
by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons for the past two years.
Ashton's health crisis began last January, when she woke in the
middle of the night with nausea and tightness in her chest, drenched
in sweat. Although she assumed it was indigestion, her husband took
her to an urgent care center, where blood tests revealed something
much worse: an elevation of enzymes that indicated a heart attack
was in progress.



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