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The American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions jointly outlined competency-based training requirements for interventional cardiology trainees.

February 2023 Issue of Becker’s Hospital Review   ON THE COVER EdD, President and CEO, MetroHealth Airica Steed, EdD, RN, became president and CEO of MetroHealth on Dec. 5, and she said community health and health equity are among her focuses Michael…

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health requires genomic testing for two cancer drugs, which can determine a patient's metabolism to provide better patient outcomes. 

Cardiovascular disease is the top killer of women, but only 44 percent of women recognize cardiovascular disease as a risk for them, according to an article on the American Heart Association website.

University of California San Francisco made history with what it believes is the first all-woman heart transplant team, the San Francisco Times reported Feb. 14.

Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers found multiple doses of the COVID-19 vaccine reduced mortality and negative health outcomes in breakthrough cases for cancer patients.

Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., opened a comprehensive breast cancer center Feb. 13. It marks the latest addition to the Frank M. and Dorothea Henry Cancer Center, the Danville, Pa.-based system said in a news release. 

Ten Florida cardiologists agreed to pay $2 million to the state of Florida to resolve allegations that they submitted inflated claims to Medicare and Medicaid and billed while the physicians were outside the U.S.

Here are eight programs, initiatives, procedures and studies by some of the innovative heart centers in the country:

Twenty-six health systems and hospitals throughout the Midwest and the East joined the American Heart Association's heart failure and patient care initiative, the association said Feb. 13.