Author: Elizabeth Gregerson

Stony Brook (N.Y.) Heart Institute’s Center for Advanced Lipid Management has become the first center in the world to administer plozasiran for treatment of familial chylomicronemia syndrome.  An estimated 6,500 people in the U.S. experience FCS, a condition associated with…

Coral Gables, Fla.-based Baptist Health South Florida has appointed Marcos Nores, MD, as medical director for the Christine E. Lynn Heart & Vascular Institute at Boca Raton (Fla.) Regional Hospital. Dr. Nores previously served as medical director of cardiovascular services…

The stroke program at Santa Monica, Calif.-based Providence Saint John’s Health Center operates as part of a highly integrated, collaborative care model — enabling it to become one of the 13% of hospitals nationwide to earn the American Heart Association’s…

Abbas Zaidi, MD, a pediatric cardiologist at Wilmington-based Nemours Children’s Health Delaware Valley, has developed an AI model that successfully predicted more than three-quarters of care gaps for pediatric congenital heart disease. He presented the research at the American Heart…

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest University School of Medicine has received a 10-year, $49.5 million contract to serve as a coordinating center for the Jackson Heart Study.  Associate professors of biostatistics and data science, Leann Long, PhD, and Clemontina Davenport, PhD,…

Dover, Del.-based Bayhealth Heart & Vascular Institute has launched a congestive heart failure clinic to improve patient outcomes after discharge and reduce hospital readmissions.  The clinic will operate out of Bayhealth Cardiology facilities in Dover and Milford, Del., according to…

An Aurora-based Children’s Hospital Colorado team has performed the hospital’s and region’s first heart and liver dual-organ transplant.  Only 38 pediatric heart and liver dual-organ transplants have been performed in the U.S., according to a Dec. 15 news release from…

Between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2024, Utah had the most hospitals with 30-day heart attack readmission rates better than the national rate of 13.6%, according to CMS data published Nov. 26. CMS reports hospital-, state- and national-level data…

Cardiology is exploding in the outpatient setting as technology advances physicians’ ability to perform cardiovascular procedures outside of the hospital and CMS expands its coverage of these procedures in the ASC setting.  Charleen Tackett, administrator of Houston-based Vital Heart &…

Cleveland-based University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute has more than 2,000 employees across 11 hospitals, 12 ambulatory health centers and multiple joint ventures. As president, Mehdi Shishehbor, DO, PhD, was tasked with standardizing vascular care across the institute through…