Mercy Medical Center's website describes the Jewel & Jim Plumb Heart Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa as Linn County's largest free-standing heart center, where Dr. Aaron Egbert practices cardiology alongside the area's only Top 50 Heart Hospital team. The center coordinates heart specialists and integrated, patient-centered cardiac services under one roof, supported by state-of-the-art technology. Mercy's cardiac surgery team has completed more than 1,000 open-heart surgeries. The Plumb Heart Center also offers vascular health screening to detect cardiovascular disease before symptoms appear, and emphasizes that calling 911 within minutes of cardiac or stroke symptoms can save 20-30 minutes of treatment time.