Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has appointed Sarah Jayawant associate vice president of cardiovascular services for the system’s Far West division, covering hospitals across California and Nevada. Ms. Jayawant has been with HCA Healthcare for 18 years, according to a March…
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Concord (N.H.) Hospital has launched a new marketing campaign to showcase its cardiovascular care service line. The campaign aims to reinforce the Concord Hospital Cardiovascular Institute as “New Hampshire’s Heart Hospital,” according to a March 31 news release shared with…
Among all U.S. hospitals, Murray, Utah-based Intermountain Medical Center had the best value of care for heart attack patients between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2023, according to CMS data released Feb. 19. The hospital also had a better…
A 10-year-old child survived 24 days on an artificial heart at Ann-Arbor-based University of Michigan Health’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, becoming the first child in Michigan to receive a total artificial heart, the Detroit Free Press reported March 27. The…
As the population of childhood cancer survivors continues to grow, and as recognition of the cardiovascular risks associated with many cancer treatments increases, the American Heart Association has updated its scientific statement on the cardiovascular care of pediatric patients during…
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The heart transplant team at Baltimore based-Johns Hopkins Medicine broke a new record in 2024, performing 65 adult transplants, more than doubling the team’s 2023 total. The milestone also broke Johns Hopkins Hospital’s previous record of 27 heart transplants in…
Here are 10 health systems across the U.S. hiring for cardiology leadership positions: Note: This is not an exhaustive list. Listings were compiled from job-seeker websites.
Research led by Natalia Trayanova, PhD, director of the Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation at Johns Hopkins University is testing AI’s ability to not only detect cardiac arrhythmias, but to recommend treatment. The technology, known as diffeomorphic mapping…
Despite representing half of the U.S. population, only 15.5% of practicing cardiologists are women, according to a review published March 19 in JACC: Advances. Cardiologists and researchers from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital, Houston-based Kelsey-Sebold Clinic, and Mayo clinics in Scottsdale,…
After establishing a catheterization lab and implementing preventive screening programs in 2016, a University Hospitals medical center saw a decrease in cardiovascular disease-associated mortality. The new lab and prevention programs were part of a $2.5 million investment in Cleveland-based University…