St. John’s participates in three different efforts to provide rapid, life-saving care for heart attack patients, both locally and in our region.
 The Prairie
Stat Heart
program
is a cooperative effort between St. John’s, Memorial Medical Center, Prairie Cardiovascular
Consultants (PCC) and 14 community hospitals. Stat Heart ensures heart attack patients
are transported from these outlying hospitals to Springfield for treatment within the critical window of 90 - 120 minutes. It is activated when a heart attack patient
enters a community hospital emergency room.
Patients are then quickly transferred
— via ambulance or helicopter — to Springfield to obtain the needed procedures.
The 90-minute national goal is based on spending 30 minutes in the outlying hospital,
30 minutes to transport and 30 minutes in St. John’s Cath Lab.
St. John’s ER and Cardiac Catheterization managers worked with PCC and Springfield
Clinic cardiologists to create the Star 90 program for patients who come to St. John’s directly.
Springfield Clinic cardiologists worked with St. John’s, Memorial and four community
hospitals to develop the Stat MI program for its patients in outlying areas.
Prairie ranks in the top 2 percent nationally for the fast treatment of heart attacks
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