The INTEGRIS Heart Hospital at INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center plans a new chest pain center to be completed by December 2005. The chest pain center will be established as a medical unit inside an expanded Emergency department at INTEGRIS Baptist.

Robert, Jeaneen, Franklin and Connie Naifeh (along with their children and grandchildren) made a gift of $300,000 to the INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center Foundation to help pay for the new unit. Officials will name the center the Naifeh Families Chest Pain Center in their honor. The Naifeh Families Chest Pain Center will provide six designated rooms to treat patients who come to the emergency room with chest pain. And patients will have access to a wide range of specialists. Already, the INTEGRIS Heart Hospital has used the Naifeh families’ gift to hire new personnel.

“Because of the generosity of the Naifeh families, patients with chest pain will soon have immediate access to the finest heart specialists in the city,” says Anthony Long, president of the INTEGRIS Heart Hospital. “And because the chest pain center will be located within INTEGRIS Baptist, patients can be treated by a full complement of other specialists. That’s not something you’ll find at standalone facilities.”

One of the real benefits to a chest pain center, Long says, is there are no delays. “The idea is that the patients come in, a team [of trained staff] gets on top of their situation and manages them throughout the entire process. If you look at national statistics, the quicker you’re able to get a patient with a heart attack and chest pain to the [cardiac catheterization lab] ... it greatly reduces their mortality and it greatly reduces a chance of damage.”

The Naifeh family has been an active part of the Oklahoma City business community for more than 70 years. Brothers Robert and Franklin Naifeh now operate Central Liquor Wholesale, the business first founded by their parents Zeak and Rose Naifeh.

“Many members of our family have directly benefited from care at the INTEGRIS Heart Hospital, and our children and grandchildren were born at INTEGRIS Baptist,” says Franklin Naifeh. “We wanted to help take cardiac care to a new level at the medical center.”

Robert and Jeaneen Naifeh have four children and eight grandchildren. Their children are Bradley Zeak, Stanley Kay and Gregory Eddie Naifeh, and Jenne Naifeh Lister. Franklin and Connie Naifeh have three sons, F. Todd, Justin Zeak and Blair Thomas, and two grandchildren.

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