Cardiovascular The American Heart Association has issued a scientific statement in its journal Circulation on the topic of perioperative anemia and patient blood management in cardiac surgery. Calling perioperative anemia and red blood cell transfusions important risk factors for morbidity and mortality in cardiac surgery, it notes that up to 50%…
Lee Health has entered into a definitive agreement to establish a “long-term partnership” with independent cardiology practice Florida Heart Associates by acquiring it. According to Lee Health, the organizations already have a “decades-long collaborative relationship.” It states that “with this acquisition, Lee Health sustains its leadership as the largest and most…
Vascular surgeon Mounir ‘Joseph’ Haurani, MD, MPH of East Carolina University, recently spoke with Venous News, “the international newspaper for venous specialists,” about the current state of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) care, particularly the deficits in care for patients post-hospital discharge. Among his insights: More than 900,000 Americans are affected…
Want to take a look inside a soon-to-open cardiovascular ASC? Lifestyle media outlet Bham Now has toured and shared photos of Birmingham Heart & Vascular Surgery Center, which is opening soon in an existing building on the UAB St. Vincent’s East campus in Birmingham, Ala. The article, titled “How Birmingham…
Cardiovascular Physicians of Delaware and its partner organization, US Health Partners, have teamed with ChristianaCare on a joint venture to establish a new cardiovascular ASC in Newark, Del. The ChristianaCare Cardiovascular Surgery Center at Newark will be launched through another joint venture that was formed in 2024 between ChristianaCare and…
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital’s Heart Institute announced it has successfully performed Florida’s first partial heart transplant. An 11-year-old patient received an implanted “living valve” of a donor heart during a procedure the hospital said is “designed to prevent the need for future open-heart surgeries because the valve will grow with the…
EP Lab Digest, a media outlet for electrophysiology (EP) professionals, has published a Q&A with Wilber Su, MD, FACC, FHRS, director of heart rhythm services at Banner-University Medical Center and professor of medicine at the University of Arizona, that discusses a panel he is moderating at the upcoming Heart Rhythm…
Colorado Springs Cardiology announced that the first procedure has been successfully completed at its new ASC, Colorado Springs Cardiology Heart & Vascular Center: a diagnostic heart catheterization that “went smoothly.” The ASC’s administrator, Mark Baker, said the new facility will enable teams to “provide a more focused and personalized care…
Suburban Chicago newspaper The Daily Herald reported over the weekend that Endeavor Health’s Edward Hospital plans a nearly $29 million investment to expand its cardiovascular services. The 20-OR facility in Naperville, Ill., is struggling with capacity issues, and told state regulators that due to its primary service area’s rapidly aging population, “projected…
A recent Philadelphia Inquirer article takes a close look at the emergence of cardiovascular ASCs in its region. The title: “New Philadelphia-area cardiovascular surgery centers are pulling profitable procedures from hospitals and charging less.” The article notes that Pennsylvania is the first Northeastern U.S. state to allow the practice, and…
