Cardiac Catheterization

Dr. Richard J. Bouchard, a retired cardiologist who played an instrumental role in the establishment of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at St. Agnes Hospital, died Saturday from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at Stella Maris Hospice. The longtime...

The four-day suspension of heart stent procedures at Raleigh General Hospital due to an "unexpected availability of physician coverage" and without further explanation has left more questions than answers, answers that, according to hospital spokesman and...

Mark Marsh is winding down his time as CEO of Greenview Regional Hospital, preparing for the next chapter in his life as head of a much larger hospital in Clarksville, Tenn. But the departure is bittersweet for Marsh, whose fondness for Bowling Green...

Owensboro Health's charges for medical procedures compare favorably to most hospitals in the region and state, according to figures released by the federal government last week, and when compared to national averages, OH's charges are often 50 percent...

Warren T. Anderson spent 40 years fixing broken hearts, and in the process, forever changed the trajectory of Monongalia General Hospital. On Tuesday, the hospital acknowledged the cardiologist's revolutionary impact by putting his name on its cardiac...

What were, until Monday, City Hospital in Martinsburg and Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Charles Town, W.Va., are now Berkeley Medical Center and Jefferson Medical Center, both under the umbrella of University Healthcare. The new names were announced...

GRAPHIC, explanation of database website. Page 2-A. Charges for the same service vary widely among area hospitals, according to data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). WVU Hospitals usually charges more than Mon...

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center said Thursday it has named Dr. David Zhao as chief of its cardiology department and director of its Heart and Vascular Center. The appointments take effect July 1. Zhao currently serves in several roles at Vanderbilt...

Whitney Gaspar has long known that she didn't have much endurance. When she was in secondary school, Gaspar said she ran a "slow mile" in gym class of 14 to 15 minutes and "avoided stuff (that required) a lot of endurance." Then in December 1999,...

Supervisors at a Maryland hospital weren't surprised when drugs were missing from a treatment room where contract radiology technician David Kwiatkowski was assigned. A manager had spotted him going through needle-disposal containers and he was among...

Monitoring a person's heartbeat and pulse has been a practice for more than one hundred years. Danville is taking the process and advancing it to the 21 century. Each of the city's fire engines now have its own portable electrocardiograms. The EKG...

Ron Petrunak remembers the wonder he experienced the first time he watched a heart catheterization in 1984. He said he still feels that “wow factor” as he watches the doctors and staff at Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center moving forward in...