Prairie Heart Team in Pinckneyville

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Key members of Memorial Hospital of Carbondale Prairie Heart Institute STAT heart team were at the Pinckneyville Community Hospital Tuesday to present Pinckneyville team members with a beautifully framed graphic that designates Pinckneyville Community Hospital and Pinckneyville Ambulance Service as key components of the program. The protocol gets heart patients into the Pinckneyville ER for diagnosis, then transferred to Memorial Hospital's cath lab by Pinckneyville Ambulance and into the recovery room in less than an hour and a half. The life-saving program is enjoying a remarkable success rate.