Here are four things to know about the health system’s efforts.
1. Mercy Health Saint Mary’s wants to offer the elective heart procedure under a change in state regulations that give hospitals without an open heart surgery program the ability to seek approval to perform elective PCI.
2. In the report, David Baumgartner, MD, executive director of specialty services at Mercy Health Saint Mary’s, said the ability for the organization to perform PCI is “long overdue.” “Now we can get patients to get the service in a more timely way and where it’s done closest to their primary care physician,” he added.
3. If Mercy Health Saint Mary’s receives state approval, it could perform its first elective PCI in February 2016.
4. In addition to Mercy Health Saint Mary’s, Holland (Mich.) Hospital and Wyoming, Mich.-based Metro Health intend to pursue state approval as well for elective PCI.
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