"We will be doing the same for heart attacks as we have been doing for trauma and that's having the team waiting as the patient arrives to take them to the cath lab, dilating the vessels of the heart so that we can stop the process that's currently occurring," said Dr. Mark Cichon, Loyola University Medical Center.
Doctors say the inner core of the heart starts dying within about 20 minutes of a heart attack.
The new policy goes into effect April 2 and is going to cost Loyola about $2 million a year.
