Positioning Your Chest Pain Center for Success In a recent article published in Cath Lab Digest on the Rationale for Developing a Chest Pain Center, accreditation was briefly discussed as one way to position a chest pain center for success. Not only does accreditation provide a means to validate quality and improve program performance, but…
For many years and even now, socio-economic factors related to outcomes following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery have not been well understood. Many studies have evaluated outcomes using insurance status and race as variables, as they were easily accessible from patient databases, though the studies themselves were limited in their ability to define any…
With being just days past the much-desired coming of the New Year, and the highly-anticipated roll-out of two (maybe three) COVID-19 vaccines, now is the time to decide where the path of possibilities can once again begin to lead. Our healthcare industry still has a long road ahead, but as the bumps in the road…
