Without this hospital, I wouldn’t be alive today!

Surviving a heart attack depends on the treatments you receive in the first hour, and thanks to Magnolia Regional Medical Center, Steve Crane was given the immediate treatment he needed.

It all started with what Steve thought was a bad case of indigestion. “I was feeling so uncomfortable, it was difficult to sleep,” says Steve. “My wife Sheila finally took me to the Emergency Room at Magnolia Regional Medical Center.”

Almost immediately after the staff gave Steve an EKG, Steve suffered a major heart attack. “Suddenly, I couldn’t breathe,” he says. “That’s the last thing I remember.” The Emergency Room staff immediately went to work, giving Steve CPR and stabilizing him for transport to a cardiologist. “I’m certain that I would not have survived my heart attack if I hadn’t been at Magnolia Regional Medical Center,” he says.

As it turned out, Steve needed three stents, including one for the notorious widow-maker, the largest of the three arteries supplying blood to the heart. The survival rate for a widow-maker heart attack is only 25 percent inside a hospital, and Steve’s widow-maker was 99 percent blocked.

This isn’t the first time Steve has trusted the Magnolia Regional Medical Center. In 2018, he stayed overnight at the hospital recovering from a previous illness. “The care I received was excellent,” he says. “I’m really proud of this hospital. Our community is so fortunate to have Magnolia Regional Medical Center.”