Heritage At Falmouth
Falmouth, MA:
Heart and Vascular Surgery
Cape Cod Hospital is one of only three community hospitals licensed by the state to perform cardiac surgery. Our outcomes are among the best in the state.
How hospitals are improving heart attack care, survival
In order to continue improving survival and prevention of heart damage, potential heart attack victims need to take action more quickly, heart experts said.
Many Heart Surgery Patients May Be At Risk of Deadly Infection
Federal health officials are warning the public that many patients who have had open-heart surgery over the past several years may have been exposed to a deadly bacterial infection that has been linked to one of the instruments used during their operations. Although it rarely happens, these infections may cause serious illness...
Tips for at-home wound care
If you've suffered an injury or undergone surgery, you may be required to care for your wound at home. It's important that proper precautions are taken to avoid infection in these instances.
Six Quick Tips To Minimize Charge Entry Lag
Running a successful ambulatory surgery center often involves crunching and calculating continuous stream numbers – volume and dollars in AR, payment comparisons, operating costs etc. An optimized billing cycle will result in a regulated reimbursement cycle. However, a more basic and often neglected aspect of the billing cycle is the lag days analysis.
Quality measurement lags in the outpatient surgery arena
With just four measures that ambulatory surgery centers are currently required to report on, the industry and patient groups are pushing for more.
How to Navigate the Health Care System Like a Pro
People with complex medical conditions end up having a lot of contact with our health care system: surgeries, doctors’ visits, specialists and therapies and imaging tests and more. And that makes them experts, in a sense, on how to get the most out of your visits.
How to Structure a Hospital/Physician ASC Partnership the Right Way
The ambulatory surgery center industry stands at a crossroads. With most areas of the country saturated with ASCs, net growth has stalled for the first time in recent history. The across-the-board elimination of out-of-network reimbursements has reduced profit margins at most ASCs, putting some facilities in peril and forcing others to take a hard look …
Number of Heart Attacks Decreases by Nearly 38%
An analysis of Medicare recipients’ records found that hospitalizations for heart attacks dropped dramatically over the last two decades
Heart Attack vs. Cardiac Arrest: Why They're Not the Same
One is a plumbing problem, while the other is electrical
Better Heart Care Saves U.S. Billions a Year, Study Finds
Efforts to keep seniors heart-healthy have saved tens of billions of dollars in U.S. health care costs in recent years, researchers say.
Five Steps You Can Take to Keep Your Heart
We are familiar with the concept of a dashboard. There is certain information you need to have close at hand. What would a dashboard of your soul look like?
Heart Failure Is Killing More Americans. Can the Health Care System Keep Up?
Mercy Heart Health Minute: A-fib ablations patient benefits and risks
Why surgery patients may wind up back in the hospital
A new study looks at the most common reasons emergency surgery patients need to be readmitted
Ask the Strategist: What Do I Need When Recovering From Surgery?
What is a STEMI heart attack?
Knowing how to take action quickly during a heart attack could save a life or help you or a family member avoid permanent disability. That’s especially true in the case of a serious kind of heart attack known as a “STEMI.”<br>Diagnosing a STEMI<br>In a STEMI heart attack (ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction), a coronary artery in the heart is completely (not partially) blocked. The damage is so severe it causes electrical changes on an EKG, which alerts medical teams they must act quickly…
Antibiotics For Appendicitis May Save Thousands From Surgery To Remove Appendix
People who suffer from acute appendicitis may be successfully treated with antibiotics and not have to undergo a surgical operation to remove their inflamed appendix, researchers of a new study have ...
Anesthesiologists Reveal The Craziest Things People Say After Surgery
Antibiotics for appendicitis? Surgery often not needed
When emergency tests showed the telltale right-sided pain in Heather VanDusen’s abdomen was appendicitis, she figured she’d be quickly wheeled into surgery. But doctors offered her the option of antibiotics instead.
How Young Patients at Doctors Medical Center Cruise to Surgery in Style
MODESTO -- Doctors Medical Center in Modesto has found a way to make surgery a little more bearable for young patients.<br>"The moment they’re wheeling the child away, they’re screaming, they’re crying, they’re trying to climb out of the bed, there’s tears," registered nurse Kimberly Martinez said.
