Experience & Innovation

For over 40 years, Good Samaritan Hospital has been a leader in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. The following are milestones in the history of the hospital's Cardiology program that included many "firsts" in the region. These cover the frontiers of medical and surgical cardiology and cardiac catheterization interventions:

1959	GSH performed the first open heart surgery in Dayton
1961	Pioneered the concept of a coronary care unit in Ohio
1968	Implementation of cardiac catheterization Service
1970	First monitored step-down unit in the state of Ohio
1973	First intra-aortic balloon pump
1974	Performed first valve procedure
1981	Performed first angioplasty
1982	First use of intracoronary streptokinase
1986	Performed first valvuloplasty
1987	Performed the first mitral valve repair
1989	Performed first implantable defibrillator
1993	First stand-alone electrophysiology lab
1996	Performed endoscopic vein harvesting for bypass surgery
1999	Performed first Transmyocardial Revascularization (TMR)
2002	Began providing cardiac resynchronization for patients with advances congestive heart failure
2002	Coronary brachytherapy introduced as a new non-surgical alternative to surgery
2003	One of the first Dayton hospitals to use newly approved drug coated stents to help reduce the rate of repeat blockage