Monument Health Expands Cardiac Services
Monument Health Heart and Vascular Institute will be extending its cardiac services to include treatment for advanced heart failure.
Monument Health Heart And Vascular Institute Recognized For Chest Pain Treatment
For the 12th consecutive year, Monument Health has received the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2023. Monument Health is one of only 262 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor.
Monument Health Heart And Vascular Institute Uses New Leadless Pacemaker System For The Treatment Of Certain Abnormal Heart Rhythms
Monument Health Heart and Vascular Institute completed its first patient procedure with an Abbott leadless pacemaker – the world’s only leadless pacemaker designed to be retrieved.
Monument Health Heart And Vascular Team Reaches Procedural Milestone
The Monument Health Heart and Vascular Institute’s Structural Heart Team completed its 500th transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure on Oct. 25. TAVR is a minimally invasive heart procedure to replace a thickened aortic valve that can't fully open.
Monument Health Introduces New Technology To Aid In Treating Atrial Fibrillation
Monument Health Heart and Vascular Institute is the first health care system in South Dakota to introduce a new technology that allows for greater precision and greater success in treating atrial fibrillation.
Monument Health Heart And Vascular Institute Honored By American Heart Association
In its first year participating in the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-AFib Registry, Monument Health’s Heart and Vascular Institute (HVI) achieved the Silver Award, the highest possible award it could receive in its first-year time frame.
Monument Health Heart And Vascular Institute Recognized For Chest Pain Treatment
At first, Allie Frankhauser thought it was indigestion. She and her husband were driving from Rapid City to their home in Chadron, Neb. Somewhere near Hot Springs, she pulled over and asked her husband to drive. By then, her chest pain was unbearable. It felt as if an elephant was sitting on her chest.
Monument Health Physician Publishes Chapter In Cardiology Textbook
Interventional Cardiologist Bhaskar Purushottam, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, FSVMB, of the Monument Health Heart and Vascular Institute has coauthored a chapter in the textbook “Interventional Cardiology: Principles and Practice, Third Edition.”