Fifteen heart hospitals received five-star recommendations from patients. Becker’s has compiled a list of the heart hospitals patients would recommend in each state using Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems data from CMS. CMS created 10 HCAHPS star…
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New York City-based NYU Langone Health named Sunil Rao, MD, director of the Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology and Susheel Kodali, MD, director of interventional cardiology and director of the system’s cardiac catheterization laboratory in Manhattan, effective Sept. 1.…
Spartanburg (S.C.) Regional Healthcare System is planning to build a $325 million Heart and Vascular Hospital. The 240,996-square-foot facility will have 104 new beds, including 90 acute-care beds and 14 coronary care unit beds; 24 catheterization lab pre- and post-procedure…
Tampa General Hospital launched a complex cardiothoracic surgery program at its TGH Brooksville hospital and completed its first open-heart surgery, Florida Politics reported. The procedure was a single-vessel coronary artery bypass graft with a mitral valve mass excision and an…
Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National named Lillian Su, MD, the MacCutcheon Family Professor of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine. With this endowed professorship, Dr. Su, who also serves as chief of the Division of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine at the hospital, plans…
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A new cardiac prehab program at Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix improved frailty and measures of functional capacity for heart failure patients, and allowed more patients to receive surgery who otherwise wouldn’t have qualified. Many decompensated heart failure patients are in…
Naples, Fla.-based NCH Rooney Heart Institute is the first to use a new technology that makes blood glow green during heart bypass surgery, ABC affiliate Gulf Coast News Now reported Aug. 24. The process involves injecting harmless dye into the…
U.S. News and World Report rated 517 hospitals high performing for heart attack care. U.S. News evaluated about 4,500 hospitals on how well they treated heart attack patients by analyzing patient survival rates, recovery at home, number of patients treated…
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Athens, Ga.-based St. Mary’s Health Care System’s new $34.6 million heart center will break ground Aug. 21, WUGA reported. The St. Mary’s Center for Heart, Vascular and Neurosciences is a 15,000-square-foot facility that will focus on treatment of stroke, heart…