RMH Heart and Vascular Services
Do you love working in a vital, rapidly growing healthcare environment where you know that what you do matters? If so, RMH Heart and Vascular Services is the right fit for you.

Our program…then and now
At RMH, the addition of a Cardiac Surgery specialty is the culmination of years of dynamic growth in heart and vascular services. Here are some of the milestones in our program’s development:

	1989—First diagnostic heart catheterization at RMH.
	1990s—Implementation of peripheral vascular noninvasive lab, color flow cardiac ultrasound, nuclear stress testing services, transesophageal echo, and outpatient cardiac rehab expansion.
	January 2003—Interventional cardiologist Mark Warner, MD, joins the RMH Heart and Vascular team; the first percutaneous cardiac intervention is performed.
	February 2005—To meet increasing demand for PCI, staff cardiologist Stewart Pollock, MD, is credentialed in interventional cardiology.
	March 2005—RMH’s second cath lab opens.
	December 2005—RMH receives state approval to begin a cardiac surgery program.
	July 2006—David McLaughlin, MD, is the third interventional cardiologist to join the RMH team.
	Summer 2006—RMH Heart and Vascular Services performs its 1,000th interventional heart catheterization procedure.
	Fall 2007—RMH Cardiac Surgery is slated to begin providing services.

Current scope of care includes:
	Pacemaker implant
	Diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization, featuring two procedure rooms, seven holding rooms and a team of three interventional cardiologists
	Peripheral vascular intervention
	Cardiac rehabilitation
	Diagnostic services
	Echocardiography
	Electrocardiography
	Nuclear scanning
	Stress testing
	Vascular ultrasound
	Cardiac CT
	Heart Check for Women, offering heart health screening, education and goal setting for women ages 30 and older

Future services include:
	Cardiac surgery program, scheduled to begin fall 2007
	Vascular outreach, providing screening and diagnostic services in outlying areas
	Cardiac outreach program, combining vascular outreach with Heart Check for Women
	Actively pursuing an electrophysiology program

Partners in cardiac care at RMH include:
Critical Care Unit, specializing in the comprehensive care of critically ill patients with single and multiple system failure, such as heart, lung and kidney failure.

Telemetry Unit, specializing in the comprehensive care of patients who require heart monitoring for conditions such as chest pain, irregular heart rhythms and potential cardiac problems related to medical history.

Emergency Department, currently treating an average of 177 patients per day and averaging annual visits of 64,000. The RMH ED treats a higher percentage of cardiac patients than other EDs across the region and state.