Just think of it as another reason to live near the heart of the community.

Richard Wnuk, a Delafield stone mason, was working on a fireplace for a friend when he started having pain under his arms. He also noticed being out of breath while snowblowing his driveway. But he continued to work through the pain, which came and went for about a week or so. But when Richard's son-in-law, a former Delafield fireman, was visiting and noticed that Richard was tired and sweating, they called 911 and he was taken to Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital.

"When I got to the hospital, those people were Johnny-onthe-spot," Richard recalls. The doctor told his team, "I want him ready to operate in 5 minutes."

Richard went from the emergency department to the cath lab, where cardiologist David Cullinane, MD and the cath lab team performed coronary angioplasty and placed a stent in his right coronary artery to improve blood flow.

"I didn't realize that they had the capabilities to do that in Oconomowoc," says Richard. "I'd tell anyone to go there. No doubt in my mind."

With the opening of the new outpatient heart and vascular center (located on the 3rd fl oor of the Oconomowoc Physician Center) it's never been easier to get healthy, or stay healthy, in this community. New, leading-edge heart and vascular capabilities include advanced CT imaging, heart failure management, peripheral vascular disease care, and much more - all linked to the nation's Top 100 Heart Hospital capabilities at Waukesha Memorial.

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• Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital is one of only a few hospitals its size in the nation offering on-site angioplasty, the preferred first line of lifesaving treatment when a heart attack strikes. 
• One of the nation's 100 Top Cardiac Hospitals as rated by Thomson Healthcare (2007), Waukesha Memorial Hospital is consistently recognized for clinical excellence in cardiac care.