Cardiovascular 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…
Cardiovascular ASCs are currently the shiny new object in the world of outpatient surgery, picking up where total joints left off. But safely opening and operating a cardiovascular ASC, in many ways, can make opening and operating a total joints service line look like child’s play. For ASC leaders evaluating…
Current Clinic, which describes itself as “the first healthcare network in the United States focused on atrial fibrillation and cardiac arrhythmia care” delivered through an “ASC-based” model, said it successfully completed its first cardiac ablation procedures late last month at its Carlsbad, N.M. location, calling them “the first cardiac ablations…
