The partnership will allow the group’s 11-physicians to work directly with the hospital to improve and coordinate heart care.
St. Anthony’s patients will realize the benefits of increased efficiency, better-coordinated patient care, decreased lengths of stay, reduced potential for readmissions and decreased complications and mortality, said David Morton, MD, clinical director of The Heart Specialty Associates and medical director of The Heart Specialty Center.
The physician component of the partnership includes invasive and non-invasive cardiologists, interventional cardiologists and cardiac electrophysiologists. Additionally, nurse practitioners, nurses, nuclear medicine, ultrasound technicians and office staff will be transitioned into the new practice to handle outpatient cardiology services.They will be based at St. Anthony’, with an additional office in Kirkwood, Mo.
Read the release on St. Anthony’s Medical Center.
Read more coverage on hospital mergers with heart groups:
– Massachusetts Cardiology Group Joins Southcoast Health System
– Maryland’s MedStar Health to Acquire Cardiology Practice
– New Jersey’s Lourdes Health System Acquires Cardiology Group
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