New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has launched the Adams Valve Institute. The institute is dedicated to advancing comprehensive care and surgical techniques for patients with heart valve disease, according to an April 7 system news release. It builds…
Author: Mariah Taylor
Cincinnati Children’s is taking a broad, collaborative approach to providing pediatric care. In February, the system partnered with a fifth hospital and its fourth partnership outside of Ohio. Its partners include Lexington-based Golisano Children’s at University of Kentucky, Peyton Manning…
Five heart societies have created a consensus document that outlines how to start and maintain a program for transcatheter tricuspid valve interventions. The document aims to help hospitals and health systems build programs to treat patients with native valve severe…
Hospitals and health systems across the nation are adding new cardiovascular services and procedures, and renovating cardiology spaces to meet patient needs. Here are some of the most recent happenings:
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine Health Network has seen double-digit growth in new patient appointments and heart services, thanks in part to a dyad partnership model among its leaders. New patient visits in the Health Network have had a compound annual growth…
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Fewer children waiting for a heart transplant are dying, but it is due to medical care improvements rather than changes to organ allocation, a recent study led by researchers at Stanford (Calif.) Medicine study found. The study, published in the…
Two years ago, Jamil Borgi, MD, became the first chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Metairie, La.-based LCMC Health’s East Jefferson General Hospital. His appointment coincided with a partnership between LCMC Health and New Orleans-based Tulane University’s School of Medicine to…
Cleveland-based University Hospitals launched its first extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation program at a community hospital. The program launched in November 2025 and is housed in the UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute at University Hospitals Elyria (Ohio) Medical Center, a level…
Roanoke, Va.-based Carilion Clinic named four leaders to its clinical team: an assistant chief nursing officer, the inaugural director of its cardiovascular institute and two department chairs, according to a March 4 system news release. Habib Samady, MD, was named…
Cleveland-based University Hospitals had a problem. Its structural heart program was so successful that it was becoming congested, making it difficult to get patients the procedures they needed. It’s a common predicament among heart programs that provide complex procedures at…