Cardiology

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Port St. Lucie, Fla.-based Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital is now performing traditional heart attack surgeries, and launched new protocols in October to recognize heart attack patients faster. The new initiative also expands cardiovascular services at the hospital and is part…

Northwell Health’s Glen Cove (N.Y.) Hospital opened its new R.H. Cushman Cardiac Imaging Center, Long Island Business News reported Oct. 26. The 875-square-foot center was established with support from Rod and Verena Cushman, whose posthumous gift of $1 million was…

Miami-based Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine named Marcus St. John, MD, chief of the division of cardiology, and Brian Schiro, MD, chief of the division of interventional radiology. The two will lead the newly created divisions within…

Tulsa, Okla.-based Ascension St. John plans to invest more than $100 million in cardiovascular care over the next several years and has hired nearly 30 physicians. The expanded program will include more than 50 physicians, additional clinical staff and new…

Healthgrades named 256 hospitals recipients of its 2027 Cardiology Excellence Award Oct. 27.  The award recognizes hospitals that deliver superior patient outcomes in acute myocardial infarction, coronary interventional procedures and heart failure. To be considered, hospitals had to be rated…

The American Heart Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine released a framework that redefines heart health for girls and women — the first coordinated guidance from multiple societies on…

Median pay for cardiologists 35 and younger fell about 19% in 2025, even as overall cardiology compensation reached a record high, according to an October MedAxiom’s 2026 Cardiovascular Provider Compensation and Production Survey. Early-career cardiologists earned a median $476,850 in…

The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Heart Failure Transitional Care Services for Adults Clinic is keeping heart failure patients out of the hospital. The clinic uses a transitional care model to see referred patients in the hospital, clinic and at…

Clinicians should prescribe exercise as a “foundational component of cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment,” according to a new American College of Cardiology scientific statement published Oct. 15 in JACC.  “The most important message is that some activity is better than…