 Your heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times in a lifetime. Each of those heartbeats deserve the region's most advanced cardiac care. Rapides Regional Medical Center was the first in the region to offer state-of-the-art procedures such as TAVR and micropacemakers. And we have the area's only hybrid operating room for advanced cardiac surgery with an interventional approach. When it comes to second chances of the heart, we should be your first choice. Rapides Regional Medical Center. Heart care on a higher level.