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Welcome to the Cardiac Fitness Center of St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center - the only hospital-based program of its kind on Long Island.


The center is located on the park-like grounds of The DeMatteis Center for Cardiac Research and Education in Greenvale.


Located just off Northern Boulevard, its serene setting offers plenty of convenient and accessible parking.


Our popular fitness center enjoys more than 60,000 visits a year and recently celebrated its 30th anniversary.


Visitors are greeted by our friendly staff to make sure every exercise session feels like a welcome visit.


All of our cardiac fitness programs are medically supervised by a doctor, registered nurses and other healthcare professionals, who are always on site.


Our award-winning center is equipped with state-of-the-art exercise equipment.


The workout circuit includes bicycles, treadmills, weight lifting stations and an indoor walking track.


All patients are prescreened for an appropriate fitness plan to ensure all of their cardiac needs are met.


Everyone is continually monitored for their progress by our highly dedicated staff.


For more information on how you can step up to better health and how we can help, call (516) 629-2040.

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St. Francis Hospital Fact Sheet

St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center® is New York State’s only specialty designated cardiac center, offering one of the leading cardiac care programs in the nation. The Hospital is widely recognized as an innovator in the delivery of specialized cardiovascular services in an environment where excellence and compassion are emphasized. St. Francis also offers an outstanding program in non-cardiac surgery that employs the most advanced technology and minimally invasive techniques available for vascular, prostate, ear-nose-throat (ENT), abdominal, oncologic, and orthopedic surgery. In 2010, the following procedures were performed:

  • 1,630 open-heart surgeries
  • 4,107 electrophysiology studies including ablations, pacemakers and AICDs (implantable defibrillators)
  • 3,425 percutaneous coronary interventions (angioplasties)
  • 8,593 cardiac catheterizations

Unsurpassed experience

  • In the past 10 years, over 100,000 cardiac catheterizations, 36,000 angioplasties, and more than 20,000 open-heart surgeries have been performed at St. Francis Hospital.
  • St. Francis has consistently had the largest cardiac surgical volume in New York State since at least 1992, when the Department of Health began collecting, analyzing and reporting cardiac outcomes. The Hospital has been recognized for outstanding success rates in cardiac surgery 11 times in the past 15 years that the State has issued reports, more than twice the number of times any other hospital in the metropolitan area has been recognized (January 2011).
  • St. Francis has one of the highest caseloads of cardiac arrhythmia procedures in the nation, including pioneering work in radiofrequency ablation and pacemaker and defibrillator implantation.
  • For the fifth consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report named St. Francis one of America’s best hospitals, and it was the only hospital on Long Island to be ranked in more than one of the magazine’s 12 adult medical and surgical specialty categories. The magazine honored St. Francis once again as a leader in heart and heart surgery, geriatrics and, for the first time, neurology and neurosurgery (July 2011).
  • St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center® has the most physicians recommended for cardiac care on Long Island, according to U.S. News & World Report’s first ever Top Doctors rankings. Eighteen St. Francis heart doctors made the prestigious list and three of them were rated among the top one percent in the nation (July 2011). 
  • St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center has been ranked the best hospital on Long Island and seventh among New York Metro area hospitals by U.S. News & World Report in the first Best Hospitals regional rankings. In addition to the three specialties for which the Hospital is nationally ranked – heart and heart surgery, geriatrics and neurology and neurosurgery – St. Francis was rated high performing in seven more specialties: cancer, ear-nose-throat, gastroenterology, gynecology, kidney disorders, pulmonology, and urology. 
  • St. Francis has more top doctors for cardiac care on New York Magazine’s Best Doctors list than any other hospital on Long Island (June 2011).
  • St. Francis Hospital is the recipient of the Magnet designation for excellence in nursing services, awarded to only 6 percent of American hospitals (April 2011).
  • St. Francis nurses were ranked among the top 10 percent in the nation by U.S. News & World Report (October 2010).
  • St. Francis Hospital has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award, recognizing the Hospital’s excellence in stroke care (May 2011).  
  • St. Francis was rated the best hospital on Long Island and substantially above its state and national counterparts in “patient experience,” according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Hospital Compare, December 2010).
  • The Hospital’s Outpatient Surgery and Emergency Departments were top-rated for overall satisfaction among large hospitals surveyed by HealthStream Research™, a leading patient satisfaction assessment company (2010).
  • The Hospital was selected as one of the best companies to work for in the U.S. by Modern Healthcare magazine (2010).
  • The DeMatteis Center for Cardiac Research and Education at St. Francis Hospital received the Summit Award from Press Ganey for outstanding patient satisfaction (2010).
  • Accredited by The Joint Commission (2009-2012).

An innovator in health care

  • Recognized national leader in cardiac non-invasive imaging, including cardiac CT scanning, cardiac PET-CT scanning, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cardiac MRI), nuclear imaging, and three-dimensional echocardiography.
  • The Hospital is a premier center for clinical trials and studies of the applications of cardiac MRI technology, as well as other image-guided methods of diagnosis and treatment for cardiovascular disease.
  • The Hospital was one of the first medical centers in the U.S to implant the Medtronic CoreValve system for transcatheter aortic valve replacement as part of a national clinical trial. The device offers new hope for patients with symptomatic, severe aortic stenosis and who are at high risk, or are ineligible, for open-heart surgery.  
  • St. Francis surgeons are experienced in all types of cardiac surgery, including minimally invasive procedures and off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery.
  • The Hospital is the leading center on Long Island for catheter-based treatment of congenital heart defects.
  • St. Francis offers a broad array of coronary, carotid and peripheral arterial angioplasty and stenting techniques, as well as abdominal aortic stenting.
  • The Hospital employs the state-of-the-art da Vinci robotic surgical system for prostate surgery and other applications including cardiac surgery
  • The Congestive Heart Failure Program at St. Francis offers specialized treatment, monitoring and support.
  • The Hospital was one of the first medical centers on Long Island to introduce a life-saving Medical Hypothermia Program for patients who are brought to the emergency room in cardiac arrest.

St. Francis Hospital

100 Port Washington Blvd.
Roslyn, NY 11576-1348
Telephone: (516) 562-6000
Physician Referral Line: (888) HEARTNY
St. Francis Hospital is a Member of
Catholic Health Services of Long Island