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Cardiac CARE At the heart of many travelers' careers
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Healthcare Traveler
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May 1, 2008
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- Ericksen, Anne Baye
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Copyright informationCopyright Advanstar Communications, Inc. May 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The ancient Roman physician Galen is best remembered for attaching certain feelings to human organs. For example, he assigned passion to the liver and emotions to the heart. As a result, we have forever connected our hearts with our feelings. But as anyone in healthcare knows, this vital organ is responsible for so much more than mere emotions.
Through the heart flow the basic necessities to sustaining life. However, if it falters or its work is impeded, the consequences can be extremely serious. Just look at the statistics: Heart disease leads national mortality rates, and has done so for years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 652,091 deaths in 2005 were ...
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Phelps opens $2 million critical care facility.
Westchester County Business Journal;
January 26, 2004 ;
Philippidis, Alex;
322 words
......previous eight-bed critical care unit. That unit consisted...intensive care and cardiac care units. We recognize...the opening of the critical care unit. The unit was...the hospital's first critical care unit in the 1970s...
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Welcare Hospital to Provide Cardiac Care to Nigerian Health Tourism...
Al Bawaba;
January 18, 2006 ;
402 words
......premier multi-specialty, critical care private hospital, is promoting its cardiac care center of excellence...reputation for excellent cardiac care, and so we are delighted...need for interventional cardiac care to be sought abroad...
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AUBURN HOSPITAL REVAMP TO FORM CRITICAL CARE UNIT.(Local)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);
August 4, 2005 ;
73 words
......will combine its intensive care and cardiac care units, each with 10 beds, into one 10-bed critical care unit on the third floor, starting Sept...study on the appropriate number of critical care beds at the hospital has concluded...
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Diane A. Kenneally, 30 Concord critical care nurse
The Boston Globe;
October 25, 1993 ;
157 words
......University Hospital in Washington. She later worked in the cardiac care unit at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Ms. Kenneally also worked as a cardiac care nurse at Lown Cardiovascular Group in Brookline. She was a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and the ...
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Taking cardiac care to heart
Winnipeg Free Press;
October 12, 2006 ;
Skerritt, Jen;
373 words
......will teach Winnipeg how to better organize its cardiac care, local experts said. Dr. Alan Menkis, co-chair of the symposium and medical director of Winnipeg's Cardiac Sciences Program, said the symposium will emphasize...already working towards moving all heart surgeries, cardiac critical ...
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CAMC: ; The hospital makes a good case for caution in changing cardiac...
Charleston Daily Mail;
September 25, 2000 ;
Dm edit;
285 words
......warn that a decision to decentralize cardiac care would be of concern not only to the...contends that: - Creating additional cardiac care units to serve a declining population...not only in the quality and cost of cardiac care, but in the availability of services...
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Hospital Mortality Information on Cardiac Care Now Available from VHI.
PR Newswire;
November 8, 2004 ;
449 words
......publishes hospital mortality information on Cardiac Care. The online information allows visitors...information on all hospitals providing Cardiac Care. Michael Lundberg, VHI's Executive Director...with your family and physician. Three Cardiac Care categories allow readers to ...
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Siemens and The Heart Center of Indiana to Research Innovative Uses of MRI...
PR Newswire;
September 23, 2004 ;
697 words
......to discover innovative uses of MRI in cardiac care, potentially reducing the need for invasive...of MRI is becoming more valuable in cardiac care; as MRI technology advances, more detail...applications of MRI and provide a forum for cardiac care specialists, a global Web site for ...
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Cardiac care course by distance education.(Focus Briefs)
Australian Nursing Journal;
March 1, 2005 ;
105 words
...The University of New England's Master of Nursing (Cardiac Care) is specifically designed for rural and remote nurses. The suite of four units reflects the diverse settings of cardiac care nursing, so the program is relevant for nurses working...
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STATE SENS. SKELOS, FUSCHILLO ANNOUNCE $500,000 IN STATE FUNDING FOR SOUTH...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
September 26, 2007 ;
439 words
......shore residents advanced, high tech cardiac care right in their home communities. "Heart...Senator Skelos. "With a first-class cardiac care facility at South Nassau Communities...residents faced in obtaining this type of cardiac care was that they often had to travel to...
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Alliance formed for improved cardiac care
Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology;
June 1, 1999 ;
Anonymous;
285 words
......clinical decision-making in all types of cardiac care environments. They will work together...communications architecture to present the cardiac care specialist with an integrated solution...hospital systems and key leaders in cardiac care around the world to confirm the alliance...
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Going online with cardiac care nursing
The Canadian Nurse;
April 1, 2000 ;
Fletcher, Marla;
246 words
...Nurses working -- or interested -- in cardiac care may soon be able to upgrade their skills through an innovative...online program now in its infancy at Laurentian University. "Cardiac Care on the Web" is a form of electronic learning for nurses...
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Officials hail decision to approve Waterbury, Conn., cardiac care center.
Waterbury Republican-American (Waterbury, CT);
July 24, 2004 ;
520 words
......Office of Health Care Access to approve a cardiac care center at St. Mary's and Waterbury hospitals...husband, John, who received his advanced cardiac care at various hospitals in Hartford, New...excellent, comprehensive and cutting edge cardiac care right here in Waterbury. James C. ...
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Sinai-Grace Hospital Selected to Participate in National Program to...
PR Newswire;
October 14, 2005 ;
787 words
......in Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care, a new national program that will focus...models to clinical areas outside of cardiac care; * To share relevant lessons with health...to develop and test best practices in cardiac care. They represent a mix of urban and rural...
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PARTNERSHIP TO EXPAND CARDIAC CARE CENTER.(NEWS)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);
July 14, 1996 ;
532 words
......medical company, plans to expand its cardiac care center, eventually tripling the number...which is the first fully integrated cardiac care facility in the Valley, will be up and...diagnosis and substantially improve cardiac care in the community,'' Wexler said. Raytel...
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