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St. Elizabeth Healthcare Joins Our Community!

Written By: Adam Pick, Patient Advocate, Author & Website Founder
Published: July 18, 2024

I am very excited to announce that St. Elizabeth Healthcare just became the newest sponsor of HeartValveSurgery.com!

St. Elizabeth Healthcare Joins HeartValveSurgery.com

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is recognized as a regional and national leader in innovative heart care with excellent outcomes in the Greater Cincinnati area. Certified by The Joint Commission and the American Heart Association as a Comprehensive Cardiac Center, St. Elizabeth Healthcare provides high quality, personalized care and easy access to leading medical and surgical specialists.

Specific to heart valve disease, St. Elizabeth Healthcare launched the Florence Wormald Heart & Vascular Institute to provide coordinated, advanced therapies that include open-heart surgery, minimally invasive mitral valve repair and transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

Dr. Mario Castillo-Sang

"We're excited to join forces with the HeartValveSurgery.com team," stated Dr. Mario Castillo-Sang, the Surgical Director of Mitral Valve and Heart Failure Therapies at St. Elizabeth Healthcare. "Together, we will educate and empower patients with the goal of providing excellent outcomes for patients struggling with heart valve disease." Dr. Mario Castillo-Sang specializes in minimally-invasive mitral valve repair surgery using endoscopic techniques that require an incision that is just 1.5 inches in length.

A Team Approach for Heart Valve Treatment

The Structural Heart and Valve Center at St. Elizabeth Healthcare brings together the expertise of cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons to plan the best treatment for your condition. Surgeons and cardiologists review the results of your diagnostic exams to determine which therapies offer you the best results. Weekly case conferences and multi-disciplinary clinics provide patients with comprehensive diagnosis and treatment.

"This is an exciting time for the treatment of heart valve disease," states Dr. Castillo-Sang. "Using a team-approach, our experts work together to determine the safest procedure that often utilize minimally invasive techniques."

To ensure the patient is guided through the therapeutic process, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has experienced advance practice providers and a robust "Nurse Navigator" program.

Nurse Navigators helps coordinate patient care from diagnosis through recovery which includes everything from scheduling appointments to educating patients about their condition and their treatment options. Advanced practice providers including nurse practitioners and physician assistants work closely with the cardiologists and surgeons to support patients in all care settings.

St. Elizabeth Healthcare Microsite Launches!

To help educate patients at HeartValveSurgery.com learn about St. Elizabeth Healthcare and its approach to all forms of surgical and interventional valve therapies, we just launched a new St. Elizabeth Healthcare microsite at this link.

Many Thanks St. Elizabeth Healthcare!

On behalf of our patient and caregiver community, many thanks to St. Elizabeth Healthcare for supporting this website, our community and our educational initiatives!

Keep on tickin!
Adam

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Written by Adam Pick - Patient & Website Founder

Adam Pick is a heart valve patient and author of The Patient's Guide To Heart Valve Surgery. In 2006, Adam founded HeartValveSurgery.com to educate and empower patients. This award-winning website has helped over 10 million people fight heart valve disease. Adam has been featured by the American Heart Association and Medical News Today.

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