Primary Care Provider & Cardiac Nurse Practitioner, JenCare Neighborhood Medical Centers When Laurie Salerno started a Heart Failure Cardiology Clinic at her practice in 2015, she aimed high: she would take the sickest, most challenging, highest-cost patients and see if she could increase their healthy days and keep them out of the hospital. The impact was … [Read more...] about Laurie A. Salerno, aNP-BC
HRP Winter 2018
Advances in Imaging Devices Set the Pace for Cardiac Care
New technologies, from the heart-lung bypass machine in the 1950s to the miniaturized echocardiogram transducers of today, has changed the delivery of cardiac care. These advances in imaging tools and technologies, as well as in the size and capabilities of catheters, are improving cardiac treatment options and quality of life for patients in Hampton Roads and across the … [Read more...] about Advances in Imaging Devices Set the Pace for Cardiac Care
Lipid Management and Continuity of Care
By Linda G. P. Schneider, MD I have a distinct memory from medical school –around the time when studies began to emerge linking high cholesterol to heart disease– of my professor lecturing passionately in defense of the “natural hardening of arteries”. In this era of medicine, the widely held view was that the excess buildup of plaque in arteries, or atherosclerosis as we … [Read more...] about Lipid Management and Continuity of Care
Dizziness & Balance Disorders
By Susan Smigielski Acker The room spins. It can happen to anyone, but when a patient says it occurs regularly, it is time to consider what is causing it. Nearly 5 percent of patients presenting to the neurology clinic complain about being dizzy, according to Dr. Patricia Mayes, a neurologist at Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group (TPMG) Neurology in … [Read more...] about Dizziness & Balance Disorders
Documentation is Key in Legal Protection
By Jessica Flage, Attorney at Law The Medical Update article about balance disorders and dizziness states that 75 percent of people over the age of 70 have some sort of balance disorder which can cause dizziness, thereby making them prone to falls. It is no secret that when an elderly person falls it can hasten their decline and be fatal. The doctors interviewed for … [Read more...] about Documentation is Key in Legal Protection
