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Hospital Sued State to Prevent Facilities from Offering Angioplasties
Posted by
Rosemary Gafner
on
Saturday, April 29, 2006 (UMST)
Hospital sues to prevent elective angioplasties in facilities without heart surgeons...
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Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, NJ, is suing the state to prevent it from allowing some hospitals to perform elective angioplasties without having heart surgeons on site. The lawsuit attempts to overturn the state Department of Health and Senior Services' decision to allow up to six hospitals to participate in a nationwide, three-year study of the safety of angioplasty in hospitals that are not otherwise permitted to perform heart surgery. According to the article, state health officials previously rejected applications from four hospitals to perform heart surgeries, saying that any expansion would lessen the quality of care provided by the 17 hospitals that are licensed for this specialty, according to the article. Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center in Plainfield was the first non-cardiac surgery hospital to obtain permission and has performed 100 emergency angioplasties since September 2002.
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