 What makes for excellence in heart care? It starts with one of the most amazing teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that I've seen assembled under one roof and the region's leading technology in a new $40 million facility. This is the nationally recognized Heart and Vascular Institute of Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Medical Center. The Pikeville Fire Department has completed renovations on their training center. The center received a new roof, upgraded plumbing and new offices amongst other renovations. Training center is used quite often for not only our department but surrounding departments to train and it just wasn't good for what we needed at the time. We didn't fit in here very well. The acoustics of the structure wasn't very good and I know that sounds kind of silly but it makes a big difference when you're in here for long periods of time teaching EMT class, teaching fire related classes and it's just good for us to be comfortable while we're in a learning environment. Despite the upgrades to the center, the department ensured the history of the center was preserved. Of course the building did need updated but one thing the chief and myself were really big on was keeping the history of the department so if you look behind me here and we have some other memorials, some memorials throughout the building that we decided to keep that were hand painted and so we're very proud to have those and I feel like it is important to keep the history and to preserve that and show it on display. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.