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News – Apr 2021

April 1, 2021June 16, 2021 MD-Update Staff Aaron Stewart, advanced heart failure, affiliate, American college, Andy Powell, baptist health, baptist health foundation, Bellarmine, Bellarmine university, Breckenridge Lane, cardiologist, cardiothoracic, cardiovascular care, cardiovascular service, CEO, chairman, chairman of baptist health foundation, chief lend officer, clinic, clinical support, Dr. Toadvine, executive director, failure, family medicine, foundation board, foundation board chairman, fundraising, great Louisville, gynecology, Harrison, Harrison memorial hospital, health foundation, healthcare, heart disease, heart failure, heart failure patient, heart transplant, HMH, hormone-related, hormone-related program, image001 photo, image002 photo, Justin Leighty, K., Kentuckian, Kentucky, Kresge way, KY 40207, Larry Gray, leadership, Leighty, Lexington, lifesaving, Louisville, Louisville baptist health foundation, Louisville Louisville, Louisville Louisville baptist health, medical degree, medical director, medical group, medicine, member of the American college of obstetrics, new CEO, new foundation board chairman, News, Norton, Norton Audubon, Norton Audubon hospital, Norton Healthcare, Norton heart, obstetrics, photo, physician, physician specialty service, Powell, president of baptist health, republic bank, republic bank 's Andy Powell, residency, Riley, role of vice chairman, service line, specialty, Stewart, suite 134, suite 200, TOADVINE, transplant, treatment of disease of the female reproductive organ, UK Gill, UK Gill heart, UK HealthCare, UofL, UofL health, UofL school, UofL school of medicine, VAD, vascular institute, vice president, vice president of clinical support, wealth of board

Aaron Stewart, MD, Joins Baptist Health Medical Group LOUISVILLE Louisville Baptist Health Medical Group welcomed Aaron Stewart, MD, in January

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Norton Heart & Vascular Institute Expands Heart Failure Program

February 1, 2021April 14, 2021 Lynne Choate accreditation, advanced heart failure, Allen Cheng, assist, assist device, assist device accreditation, DNV GL Healthcare, excellence, executive director, failure, heart failure, image001 photo, implantation, Kelly McCants, Louisville Norton, Louisville Norton heart, mechanical circulatory support program, Medicaid, Medicaid service, medical director, Medicare, Norton, Norton Audubon, Norton Audubon hospital, Norton Cardiothoracic, Norton Cardiothoracic surgery, Norton Healthcare, Norton Healthcare Bassel Alkhalil, Norton heart, people need ventricular assist device, placement, provider, recovery, recovery program, Rounsavall, support program, surgery, VAD, VAD program, VADs, vascular institute, ventricular assist device accreditation, W.

LOUISVILLE Norton Heart & Vascular Institute has expanded services for patients with advanced heart failure to include surgical implantation of

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Healthy at Home

February 1, 2021April 14, 2021 Jim Kelsey angioplasty, angioplasty procedure, Asymptomatic presentation, atrial fibrillation, atypical pain, atypical presentation, Bob Valvano, bunch of doctor, cardiac cath lab, cardiologist, cardiology, cardiology fellowship, cardiology residency, CardioMEMS, cath lab, Chandhiran Rangaswamy, congestive heart failure, COVID, COVID-19, expected presentation, failure, fibrillation, general cardiology, geriatrician, heart disease, heart failure, hospitalization, image001 photo, interventional cardiologist, kid call, Louisville, Louisville native, Louisville resident, Louisville school, manage condition, medical influence, mislead presentation, muscle pull, pain, patient call, physician, pillow, presentation, procedure, quality of life, Rangaswamy, Rangaswamy 's career path, Rango, reflection of people, shortness, shortness of breath, symptom, textbook presentation, textbook presentation of heart disease, time patient present, university of Louisville school of medicine, UofL, UofL health, UofL physician, will present

LOUISVILLE It is 3:00 am, and Chandhiran Rangaswamy, MD, an interventional cardiologist at UofL Health, is about to begin his

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Surgeons at Jewish Hospital First in Kentucky to Implant HeartMate 3™ After FDA Approval

March 1, 2018May 8, 2018 Barbara Mackovic advanced heart failure, advanced heart failure patient, blood cell, blood flow, bridge-to-transplant, continuous flow, durability, evolution of left ventricular assist device, failure, firsts, full magnetic levitation, heart care, heart failure patient, heart pump blood, heart surgery, heart transplant, HeartMate 3 LVAD, HeartMate 3 system, HeartMate 3™, HeartMate3, hemodynamic support, image001 photo, improve survival, improved blood flow, Jewish hospital, Kentucky, KentuckyOne, KentuckyOne health, Louisville, Louisville cardiovascular surgeon, LVAD, LVAD technology, LVAD therapy, MagLev™, MagLev™ flow technology, Mark, Mark S. slaughter, myocardial recovery, new benefit, physician, physician manage advanced heart failure patient, pump, quality of life, rotor, S., short-term hemodynamic support, slaughter, surgery, therapy, thoracic surgery, trauma, university of Louisville, weakened heart pump blood

LOUISVILLE Cardiovascular surgeons at Jewish Hospital, part of KentuckyOne Health, were the first in Kentucky to implant the HeartMate 3

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Gastroenterology Internal Systems Special Section

A Gut Feeling

February 1, 2017July 17, 2017 Jim Kelsey Abell, Abell 's path, Abigail Stocker, average primary care doctor, care doctor, chronic condition, chronic illness, clinic, complete residency, consortium, core of chronic illness, diagnosis, diarrhea, difficulty digest food, Dr. Thomas Abell, Dr. Thomas Abell 's team, failure, family medicine, gastroenterology, gastrointestinal motility clinic, good news, gut, gut failure, home health patient, hospital motility clinic, illness, Jewish hospital motility clinic, Lindsay McElmurray, Louisville, Louisville physician group, medical director, medicine, motility, motility clinic, nausea, NIH, Ohio state university college, Ohio state university college of medicine, physician, primary care doctor, primary doctor, right diagnosis, Sanford school of medicine of the university, statement hundred, statement hundred of time, strong relationship, Thomas Abell, U, university of Louisville physician group, university of Tennessee college of medicine

LOUISVILLE “I’ve got this problem, and it won’t go away.” Any physician dealing with chronic conditions has likely heard this

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The Beat Goes On

March 1, 2015 Jim Kelsey aortic stenosis front, appendage, atrial fibrillation, beat, blood thinner, cardiac patient, cardiologist, cardiology, changer, co-director, CoreValve, Dermot Halpin, Edwards SAPIEN Transcatheter, Edwards SAPIEN Transcatheter heart, executive co-director, executive co-director of KentuckyOne health heart, FACC, FACS, failure, Falluji, FDA, FDA approval, fibrillation, FSCAI, game changer, grow collaboration, Hamid Mohammadzadeh, heart team, heart team 's approach, invasive procedure, Joseph, Joseph hospital, Joseph hospital heart team handle technology change, KentuckyOne, KentuckyOne health cardiology associate, KentuckyOne health heart, lariat, lariat procedure, Lexington, MD-UPDATE, MD-UPDATE issue, Michael Schaeffer, mitral valve, new procedure, Nezar Falluji, noose, percutaneous valve team, procedure, regurgitation, Robert Salley, sheath size, size of the delivery system, small sheath size, stenosis front, symptom, thinner, unique team approach, valve, valve team, vascular care

LEXINGTON In February 2014, MD-UPDATE Issue #84 shared the story of the “Heart Team” at KentuckyOne Health Cardiology Associates at

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Digoxin Increases Risk in Patients with Atrial Fibrilation

February 1, 2013 Jodi Whitaker additional patient, AF, AF patient, analysed data, arrhythmia, associate professor, associate professor of medicine, atrial fibrillation, atrial fibrillation follow-up investigation, atrial fibrillation follow-up investigation of rhythm management, cardiovascular cause, chairman of cardiovascular medicine, common heart rhythm problem, contemporary management, contemporary management of AF, controversial heart drug, digoxin, Digoxin increase risk, Dr. Samy Claude Elayi, E., Elayi, failure, fibrillation, fibrillation follow-up investigation, find raise, Gill, group of university of Kentucky researcher, heart drug, heart failure, HF, Kentucky researcher, long-standing heart medication, medication, physician, prestigious European heart journal, rhythm, rhythm management, safety of digoxin, UK HealthCare, UK HealthCare 's gill heart institute, UK Healthcare research team voice concern, UK HealthCare researcher, use of digoxin

Digoxin, a drug widely used to treat heart disease, increases the possibility of death when used by patients with a

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KentuckyOne Health Facilities Unique Program to Reduce Heart Failure Readmission Rates

August 1, 2012July 17, 2017 Kelly C. Mccants, MD care provider, challenge of create program, clinic, costly penalty, dietitian, direction of physician, disease process, diuretic, effective utilization of healthcare resource, Elizabeth, Elizabeth hospital, failure, healthcare resource, heart failure, heart failure care, heart failure management, heart failure patient, heart failure readmission, HeartCheck, HeartCheck patient, HeartCheck program, hospital readmission, Jewish hospital, KentuckyOne, KentuckyOne health, KentuckyOne health facility, liaison, Mary, Medicare, Medicare deficit, multidisciplinary care, outpatient, outpatient care clinic, patient education, physician, primary care provider, provider, readmission, readmission rate, self-management of heart failure, skilled nurse, st, transplantation, VNA, VNA liaison, VNA Nazareth, VNA Nazareth home, VNA provider

The Affordable Care Act is pushing hospital’s to come up with an effective, coordinated effort to reduce heart failure readmissions

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News – Mar 2012

March 1, 2012 MD-Update Staff accreditation, affiliate, anticonvulsant, artery, athlete, autoinjector, Birks, blocked artery, blocker, breast health, cancer, carcinogenesis, Care, Care center, central baptist hospital, chair, chest pain center, Christine, Christine M. Kleinert institute, commonwealth, commonwealth cancer center, community medicine, concussed, concussion, CVS Caremark, Danville, Driver, faculty, failure, goal of provide cancer patient, hand transplant, heart attack, heart function, implantation, Jewish hospital, Kentucky, KentuckyOne, KentuckyOne health, kiosk, Kleinert Kutz, Kleinert Kutz hand, Kosair, Kosair child, Kosair child 's hospital, Ky., Lexington, Livingston, Livingston 's study, lorazepam, Louisville, LVAD, LVADs, M., M. Kleinert, M. Kleinert institute, Markey, Markey cancer center, Markey cancer center affiliate, markey cancer network, medical center, medical director, medication, medicine, MEPs, microsurgery, midazolam, MnSOD, new member of UK HealthCare 's markey cancer center affiliate network, News, oncology, paramedic, Pearce, physician, Poe, procedure, professor, provide cancer patient, seizure, self-reported, self-reported symptom, society of chest pain center, support program, surgeon, surgery, symptom, SynCardia, TAH, therapy, Thurman, total artificial heart, transplant, transplantation, treatment option, UK HealthCare, UK HealthCare 's markey cancer center affiliate network, UK Markey, university of Kentucky, university of Louisville, wellness, woman 's wellness

Commonwealth Cancer Center Joins Markey Cancer Network DANVILLE – Commonwealth Cancer Center is the newest member of UK HealthCare’s Markey

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