March 14, 2003 – Juan F. Luis Hospital will celebrate its first anniversary of performing angioplasty and other cardiovascular intervention procedures with an open house at 2:30 p.m. March 24 in the hospital's first-floor cafeteria.
The public is invited to tour the cardiovascular care facilities and to hear from people who have benefitted from the skills of the Cardiovascular Care Team as well as from team members.
Dr. Kendall Griffith, unit director; Dr. Michael Potts, hospital interim chief executive officer; and Dr. Dante Galiber say a cohesive team had made the year's accomplishments possible, according to a hospital release. The staff also includes Dr. Roy Arcamo and registered nurses Jill Price, Lorie Trotman, Zanna Gardner and Sara White.
In the last year, the team has performed 27 angioplasties, 11 of them elective and 16 of them emergency cases, and has inserted nine permanent pacemakers. Angioplasty is a procedure that improves blood flow to the heart for cardiac-care patients.
The Luis Hospital cardiovascular care program attracted national attention two months ago when an article written by Price appeared in a pubication that reaches health-care providers across the country. (See "Publication looks at JFL Hospital cardiac care".)
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