The well-oiled machine that does 1,500 adult open heart procedures a year at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn will do the same thing at Condell Medical Center. Condell's nurses and anesthesiologists will train at Christ. Estimates are that 200-250 operations will be performed at Condell the first year of the program. It could accelerate to 500 or more in a few years. Condell Medical Center is now a local resource for complete management of all cardiac problems.
Patients can have long-term acute care right in their community.
The advantage is that we're in the center of the county. And we relate to our patients the same way their primary-care physicians do. Phil Faraci, Medical Director Condell Heart Center Growing up in the northeastern Massachusetts town of Haverhill, Phil Faraci knew what his life's work would be. Phil would become a doctor. Faraci's caring manner traces back, of course, to those boyhood days with his father.