Cardiology

The Detroit Medical Center plans to break ground on a $78 million cardiology facility next week, according to an Associated Press/Chicago Tribune report.

Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center is opening a new heart center at Glenpointe in Teaneck, N.J., according to a hospital news release.

Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay, Ore., has completed the skeleton of its approximately $45-million new wing, which will house an intensive care unit and catheterization lab, according to a report by The World.

Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., has opened a new cardiac intensive care unit, according to a hospital news release.

Little Rock, Ark.-based Baptist Health has partnered with Arkansas Cardiology to create the Baptist Health Heart Institute, according to a news release.

Physicians may have to perform 30 transfemoral aortic valve implantations before becoming proficient, according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Interventions.

Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kan., is close to finalizing its acquisition of Galichia Heart Hospital in Witchita, according to a Wichita Eagle report. The deal is set to close within the first quarter of 2012. Wesley — not its…

Orlando (Fla.) Health has opened the Orlando Health Heart Institute, integrating heart care for the health system's seven hospitals, according to an Orlando Sentinel report.

Roughly one in six patients who received a percutaneous coronary intervention were readmitted to the hospital within one month of their procedure, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Researchers based the…

Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., will end its heart transplant services on Jan. 14, according to a Tennessean report. Heart transplant volume at Saint Thomas has fallen in recent years but is on the rise at its crosstown competitor,…