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…
Author: Mariah Taylor
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…
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…
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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,…
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…