Mariah Taylor

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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…

Want to bring more innovation to your heart center or cardiovascular department? Start by supporting and rewarding staff who work to bring innovation in, Mark Ricciardi, MD, section chief for interventional cardiology and structural heart disease at Warrenville, Ill.-based Endeavor…

Jeffrey Marshall, MD, chief of cardiology at the Northside Hospital Heart Institute in Atlanta, is retiring. Dr. Marshall, a nationally recognized interventional cardiologist, has helped grow the hospital’s cardiovascular program and helped advance treatment for complex coronary artery disease, acute…

Cardiology is booming with innovation, but there’s one aspect that remains overlooked: who qualifies for minimally invasive therapies. Cardiology should be “more aggressive about broadening who we’re targeting to care for,” Mark Ricciardi, MD, section chief for interventional cardiology and…

Statesboro-based East Georgia Regional Medical Center is renovating and expanding its cardiac catheterization labs with more than $11 million, according to a hospital news release published on Grice Connect Aug. 16. The upgrades will fully renovate and expand the hospital’s…

U.S. News & World Report rated 246 hospitals as high performing for transcatheter aortic valve replacement. U.S. News evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals overall and rated about 800 on TAVR using data such as survival, prevention of stroke and number of patients treated. Hospitals…

MU Health Care’s Columbia (Mo.) campus became the 28th hospital to earn the Joint Commission’s Comprehensive Cardiac Center Certification. This is one of the most rigorous certifications awarded to cardiac programs nationwide and recognizes hospitals that demonstrate excellence across the…

Forty-two Minnesota hospitals were recognized by the American Heart Association for improving care for patients with heart disease and stroke. The recognition came through AHA’s Get With The Guidelines. Nationwide, more than 3,000 hospitals take part in the program, and…

Delaware had the highest stroke death rate at 62.6 while New York had the lowest at 23.7, the CDC found. The CDC calculated mortality rates from stroke in every state. Mortality rate is the number of deaths per 100,000 total…