New York City-based NYU Langone has appointed Noritsugu Naito, MD, PhD, to serve as NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn’s first chief of cardiac surgery. Dr. Naito will also serve as a clinical associate professor in the department of cardiothoracic surgery at NYU…
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Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s primary care physicians will soon participate in a four-year, pharmacist-led implementation project aimed at enhancing hypertension care models. The project is funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, according to an April 8 news…
Gainesville-based Northeast Georgia Health System has named Haley Harrison, MSN, RN, vice president of the Georgia Heart Institute. As vice president, she will oversee the system’s comprehensive heart and vascular service lines, according to an April 9 news release from…
Glen Burnie-based University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center, part of Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical System, has acquired the Heart Center of Northern Anne Arundel County, also based in Glen Burnie. The acquisition was effective April 1, according to…
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Broward Health raised $9 million at an annual fundraising event, the majority of which will go to enhancing the system’s cardiovascular service line. It is the most money raised in the event’s 12-year history, according to an…
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Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health has partnered with East Tennessee State University, also in Johnson City, to enhance the medical training of students in the school’s cardiology program. Fellows in ETSU’s cardiology program will now learn and practice within the…
Researchers from Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics recently found that coronary artery bypass grafts are the most lucrative cardiology procedures for hospitals nationwide. The surgeries, which aim to improve blood flow to the heart, were…
Cardiologists in Indiana earn the highest annual and hourly mean wage before and after adjusting for the state’s cost of living index, according to data published April 2 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The national annual mean wage for…
CMS has proposed Medicare and Medicaid coverage for transcatheter tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair procedures for the treatment of symptomatic tricuspid regurgitation. The procedures would be subject to CMS’ Coverage with Evidence Development guidelines, meaning coverage would be considered only in…
Los Angeles-based Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai is going all in on artificial intelligence to improve heart care, patient experience and provider wellbeing. Here are just five ways the facility is harnessing AI to get results: 1. In outpatient care,…