Most Innovative Heart Centers: Chicago's Mercy Hospital-Cardiologists, surgeons and other specialties collaborate to create a profitable interventional/endovascular program that goes beyond the coronaries

摘要

Cath lab volumes have gone down in recent years for several reasons, but one of the biggest reasons might be market saturation.This is certainly the case in Chicago, where nearly every hospital has a cath lab, resulting in relatively low volumes at most centers, despite the fact they are located in the largest city in the Midwest. Cardiovascular Services at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center on Chicago's South Side has differentiated itself through diversification, redeveloping its cardiac cath labs into a more collaborative interventional department serving numerous specialties. Mercy also renovated all its rooms into hybrid cath labs, bringing them up to the same standards as the operating rooms (ORs) in the surgical department.