When Emanuel Medical Center unveiled their Justin Ferrari Cardiovascular Operating Suites in 2014, it was billed as a state-of-the-art facility that would usher in a new era of procedures, techniques and possibilities that would change the type of cardiac care in Turlock. Now, it appears that promise is coming to fruition. Emanuel Medical Center recently became the first hospital in the San Joaquin Valley to implant a new FDA-approved dissolving heart stent in a patient with coronary artery disease.