Heart Disease Heart disease is the biggest health risk Americans face today. If you don’t have heart disease now, you can help prevent it. If you’ve already been diagnosed with heart disease, you can keep it from getting worse.

Heart Health Quiz Heart-attack deaths have fallen 60 percent in three decades. Still, millions of Americans suffer from cardiovascular diseases linked with heart attacks and strokes.

Video: Cardiac Rehabilitation Physical activity is healthy for your heart—even after you've had a heart attack or bypass surgery. It's important to start out slowly, under the supervision of cardiac rehab specialists. In this video, you'll learn what's involved in cardiac rehab and how it can benefit your health in the long term.

State of the Heart Caring

Laredo Medical Center offers convenient, comfortable, professional care to all patients, including those suffering from heart ailments. This includes:

• Four floors of all-private rooms when overnight stay is required, including special units for critical, rehabilitation, and transitional care.
  
• Maternal/child services in beautiful, spacious surroundings including mother/baby care provided in family centered birthing suites. Services include a newborn nursery and neonatal intensive care unit. We also have a special pediatrics area that includes a pediatric gastroenterologist for the special needs of our children.
  
• Outpatient surgical services easily accessible from a separate canopied entrance.
  
• Complete oncology services such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy with a strong commitment to quality and comprehensive services, through an affiliation with the University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio.
  
• Neuroscience services are immediately available including neurosurgery, neurology and head and neck surgery.
  
• Additional patient services such as dialysis, physical therapy, pharmacy, nutritional services, chapel, gift shop, and many more.