Becker's Cardiology

There is a trend taking hold in advanced cardiac services: decentralized care. Systems across the nation are improving access to advanced cardiovascular care by bringing procedures, surgeries and screenings to regional and community hospitals. Traditionally, these cardiovascular services were provided…

Los Angeles-based UCLA Health has established a cardiovascular discovery and translational research chair through a $2 million donation. The gift came from the Jivrajka Family Foundation to support cardiovascular disease prevention in South Asians and other high-risk populations, according to…

Grand Blanc, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care has launched a cardiovascular screening program in partnership with Bunkerhill Health. The program applies Bunkerhill Health’s AI platform to clinical data from patients’ routine chest CT scans previously performed for other medical reasons, according…

From division chiefs to program directors, here are 10 cardiology leader openings: 1. AdventHealth Heart & Vascular Institute, based in Kansas City, Kan., is seeking an executive medical director. 2. Broward Health, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is looking for…

Austin, Texas-based St. David’s HealthCare, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, acquired Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeons Feb. 15. The acquisition brings the cardiothoracic and vascular physician group’s clinic operations under St. David’s, according to a Feb. 17 news release shared…

Winfield, Ill.-based Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital might be a community hospital, but it has one of the nation’s top heart programs.  It ranks among prestigious systems such as Cleveland Clinic for lowest 30-day mortality and…

San Francisco-based UCSF Health has performed its first heart transplant for a patient who received an artificial heart months earlier. The 37-year-old patient came to the system in August with advanced heart failure, according to a Feb. 11 system news…

Of the 34 physicians Nauman Mushtaq, MD, has hired in the last decade, only two have left the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital. Yet he’s recruited from University of Chicago, Brigham and Women’s, Johns Hopkins and…

The board of trustees for Novant Health, a Winston-Salem, N.C.-based system with 19 hospitals, has approved construction plans expected to cost upward of $1 billion to meet patient demand in Southeast North Carolina.  The project includes a heart and vascular…

Every heart transplant program is built for the moment when medicine reaches its edge,  when a patient’s heart can no longer be repaired, only replaced. At Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center, that moment is approached with…