I want to let folks know how important it is for rural residents in Arkansas to have access to cardiac care. Each week we bring a portable imaging machine into our small rural towns so people who live in the country can get the tests they need to diagnose and treat their heart disease. I know many of these elderly residents would not drive all the way to Little Rock – a 70-mile trip one way—for their care. It just takes too much out of them. But they will go to their local office to receive care because it’s convenient and it gives them the same high-quality care they’d receive in the main office in Little Rock. If we didn’t have the ability to provide these mobile machines, I believe we’d have much higher rates of cardiac death in our rural areas”.

David Mego, MD, FACC/Little Rock Cardiology Clinic