Cardiology

Banner Boswell Medical Center in Sun City, Ariz., has gone live with a new central monitor station designed to help hospital technicians more closely monitor cardiac patients, according to an Arizona Republic report.

Yakima (Wash.) Regional Medical and Cardiac Center will open its new cardiac floor next week, according to a kapptv.com report.

Limiting the use of drug-eluting stents for reducing restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention saves costs without affecting the rate of death within a year, according to a study published in Circulation.

Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island in Pawtucket is partnering with Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston instead of nearby Miriam Hospital or Rhode Island Hospital, both in Providence, for cardiac care, according to a Providence Journal report.

Crowding in the emergency department does not adversely affect door-to-balloon time for heart attack patients, according to research published in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Patients' severity of pain is not associated with the likelihood of having a heart attack, according to a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Stress magnetic resonance imaging in an emergency department can reduce costs without negatively affecting outcomes, according to an article published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Interventions and reported in MedPage Today.

The rate of obstructive coronary artery disease found at elective coronary angiography varied from 23-100 percent among hospitals, according to an article published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

The University of California-San Diego's Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center is now open for outpatients, according to a San Diego Union-Tribune report.

About 18 months ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services cut cardiologists' reimbursement by approximately 40 percent, which drove many cardiologists out of private practice and into hospitals. Recently, health systems such as Denver-based Centura Health, Camden, N.J.-based Lourdes…