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…
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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…
Orlando-based AdventHealth Transplant Institute has successfully completed two new transplant procedures. The institute’s surgeons completed its first living donor liver transplant as part of a newly established program, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. This first procedure involved…
About 95% of medical call centers nationwide use the Schmidt-Thompson protocols, but in 2024, WellSpan Health leaders opted to create their own protocols for heart failure patients. “We recognized that protocols like the Schmidt-Thompson were designed around safety,” James Harvey,…
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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…
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute has received another $50 million gift from philanthropist Neil G. Bluhm and the Bluhm Family Foundation, the organization said in a Feb. 11 news release. This gift will be used to bring new technologies…
Murfreesboro, Tenn.-based Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford opened its Structural Heart and Valve Center Feb. 4, WGNS reported. The center will provide advanced treatments, including transcatheter aortic valve replacement, left atrial appendage closure, and other minimally invasive valve repair and replacement…
Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences named Jorge Saucedo, MD, a long-term cardiology leader, chair of the department of internal medicine. Dr. Saucedo stepped into his new position Nov. 1, according to a Nov. 3 system news release.…