Primary care physicians and neurologists with poor quality ratings prescribe opioids and butalbital medications to headache patients at significantly higher rates than top-performing counterparts, according to an analysis conducted by the healthcare clinical navigation company Grand Rounds.
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Riverside Healthcare (Kankakee, Ill.). Riverside Healthcare’s Riverside Heart & Vascular Institute partners with the University of Chicago Medicine to provide cardiothoracic services. In 2017, the American Heart Association honored Riverside Healthcare with the Mission: Lifeline Bronze Quality Achievement Award for…
ProMedica Toledo (Ohio) Hospital. ProMedica Toledo Hospital offers a heart failure clinic, structural heart clinic and the Jobst Vascular Institute, which provides diagnostic tests, surgical and nonsurgical treatment, education and follow-up care. The hospital hosts 36 cardiologists, including four cardiothoracic surgeons, 12 vascular surgeons and…
Piedmont Healthcare (Atlanta). Piedmont Healthcare combines a level 1 cardiovascular center with seven hospitals and a multidisciplinary team of nurses, healthcare professionals and physicians to form Piedmont Heart. With more than 85 cardiovascular specialists and 26 cardiology offices across Metro Atlanta…
Penn Medicine (Philadelphia). Penn Presbyterian, Penn Medicine’s flagship hospital, opened one of the first coronary care units in the country in 1963. Penn Medicine surgeons have performed more than 1,000 heart transplants since launching the health system’s transplant program in…
Oregon Health and Science University Hospital (Portland). Oregon Health and Science University Hospital established OHSU Cardiovascular Institute in 2012 through a $125 million donation from Phil and Penny Knight. The institute is Oregon’s only comprehensive heart program with services for end-stage…
OSF HealthCare (Rockford, Ill.). Formerly the Rockford Cardiovascular Associates, OSF Healthcare Cardiovascular Institute has been providing patients care since 1963. More than 65 heart specialists providing care at 22 locations across central Illinois comprise OSF Healthcare Cardiovascular Institute. The institute’s…
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus). The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital is a 150-bed facility with an ambulatory care center, heart transplant center and medication management clinic. The first heart transplant was performed…
Oklahoma Heart Hospital (Oklahoma City).The physician-owned Oklahoma Heart Hospital touts the distinction of being the first all-digital hospital in the U.S. With two locations in Oklahoma City, the hospital and its research foundation typically enter into around 80 clinical trials…
Ochsner Medical Center-Baton Rouge (La.). Ochsner Medical Center’s John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute is home to more than 50 cardiologists. Surgeons at Ochsner Medical Center have completed more than 900 heart transplants and 450 nonsurgical aortic valve replacement procedures.…