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Chest Pain Center
Chest Pain Center
TriStar Centennial has received recognition as an Accredited Chest Pain Center (CPC) with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) by the Society of Chest Pain Centers.
TriStar Centennial is one of only three hospitals in Middle Tennessee using AirStrip CARDIOLOGY, an innovative mobile health technology application allows our physicians to remotely monitor a patient’s heartbeat by viewing an electrocardiogram (ECG) on an iPhone® or iPad® before the patient even arrives to our hospital.
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