2/25/2010—Community Heart and Vascular, part of Community Health Network, is pleased to announce Kevin Fowler as chief financial officer.
Fowler returns to Indiana after serving as CFO at Lubbock Heart Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, since 2007. Fowler will be a part of the strategic development team of Community Heart and Vascular and will proactively advise on all financial aspects of operations, including financial reporting, business and clinical decision support, revenue cycle, budgeting and forecasting, cash management and managed care strategy.
"I am very pleased to have Kevin join our team,” said Tom Malasto, CEO of Community Heart and Vascular. “His 23 years of financial experience in health care environments has yielded a proven track record working to integrate hospitals, physicians, administrators and employees into one team.”
Fowler earned his MBA and undergraduate degree from Indiana State University. In addition to being a certified public accountant, he has served in other health care finance and operations positions in Colorado, Vermont, Indiana and Texas. He is a member of Rotary International and looks forward to working with Indianapolis business leaders who are also members. Fowler’s hobbies include gardening, fishing and golf.
2/25/2010—Chad Bonhomme, M.D., Krishna Malineni, M.D., both electrophysiologists, and Shalabh Singhal, M.D., an invasive cardiologist, have joined Community Heart and Vascular, part of Community Health Network.
The additions of Drs. Bonhomme, Malineni and Singhal total eight new cardiovascular physicians to join Community Heart and Vascular in the past year, specializing in cardiology, electrophysiology and vascular surgery.
Learn more about all of the Community Heart and Vascular cardiologists
11/18/2009—The Indiana Heart Hospital has been named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals® for cardiovascular care by Thomson Reuters for four consecutive years.
Thomson Reuters’ annual study—100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks—examined the performance of 971 hospitals by analyzing clinical outcomes for patients diagnosed with heart failure and heart attacks and for those who received coronary bypass surgery or percutaneous cardiovascular interventions (PCI) such as angioplasties.
The 2009 winners were announced November 16 in Modern Healthcare magazine.
“Cardiovascular disease is still the number-one killer in the United States so we look for the hospitals that provide the best care,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president for performance improvement and 100 Top Hospitals programs of Thomson Reuters. “These hospitals set the national standard for cardiovascular disease outcomes, process of care, efficiency, and lower costs. They deliver significant value to their communities.” Full story >>
VHA Inc., a national health care network, has recognized The Indiana Heart Hospital as a leading practice hospital for its work in preventing catheter-acquired urinary tract infections (CAUTI’s).
As a leading practice hospital, a team of VHA clinical experts will visit The Indiana Heart Hospital on September 9, to study and document the clinical processes, or “care bundle,” that is followed for the prevention of CAUTI’s. The VHA team and The Indiana Heart Hospital team will collaborate to develop a blueprint that maps out each step in the care process, ensuring that the blueprint outlines transferable knowledge and practice patterns. Once the blueprint is developed, VHA will disseminate it to 1,400 VHA member hospitals nationwide and encourage them to incorporate the practices into their patient care patterns.
“We’re honored to be recognized by VHA for our efforts to improve the quality of care we offer patients in our community,” said Cindy Adams, PhD and director of cardiovascular outcomes research with The Indiana Heart Hospital. “Our team is devoted to seeing that our patients get the very best care, and it’s gratifying to know that other hospitals around the nation will be encouraged to copy our approach.”
"We know if other hospitals apply the blueprint that The Indiana Heart Hospital has helped VHA develop, it will save lives and save our nation's health care system millions of dollars annually," said Trent Haywood, M.D., J.D., chief medical officer at VHA.
VHA also lauded The Indiana Heart Hospital’s efforts to foster teamwork across the organization, since teamwork is a key to improved performance.
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We are pleased to announce that the next evolution of cardiovascular care in central Indiana, a new, integrated cardiovascular program within Community Health Network began on January 1, 2009.
Our integrated approach unites cardiovascular physician practices, The Indiana Heart Hospital and Community Health Network into a new relationship for delivering cardiovascular services to Indiana, bringing the quality, safety and service we provide our patients to a higher level. Our strategy, the first of its kind in this market, will transcend the level of care we provide our patients to new heights—creating a lasting legacy to the community we serve.
We hope that you share our enthusiasm and anticipation surrounding this announcement.
Sincerely,
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Tom Malasto |
Ramu Yeleti, M.D. |
The Indiana Heart Hospital has been granted accreditation by The Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Nuclear Medicine Laboratories (ICANL) and The Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories (ICAEL). These accreditations recognize The Indiana Heart Hospital for its voluntary commitment to providing quality diagnostic testing in the areas of nuclear cardiology, nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography (PET) and echocardiography.
“I am very proud of our dedicated staff and physicians who have worked so hard to reach these achievements,” said Kiran Kareti, M.D., medical director of Cardiovascular Testing for Community Heart and Vascular. “Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, resulting in a loss of life every 32 seconds. Thus, it is critical that we excel in cardiovascular imaging to allow us to detect the presence of disease and to determine one's risk of a future cardiovascular event.”
The Indiana Heart Hospital has three cardiovascular testing centers with additional locations on the campuses of Community Hospitals East and South in Indianapolis. Learn more >>
The Indiana Heart Hospital, a Community Health Network facility, has received four awards for clinical excellence from VHA Central, the regional arm of VHA Inc., the national health care alliance. The awards recognize The Indiana Heart Hospital for sustained clinical excellence as measured by CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) on core measures in the areas of:
“VHA Central works with dozens of hospitals across Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky,” said Mark Hochstetler, M.D., vice president of clinical affairs. “Our mission is to help them become leading performers. We provide hospitals with tools, education and access to clinical experts to enable them to accelerate the pace of performance improvement.” Hochstetler went on to say, “Public expectations, payer demands and government mandates are pushing hospitals to provide better care. By recognizing these selected hospitals with clinical quality awards, we hope to demonstrate that hospitals can overcome the obstacles that often stand in the way to achieving excellence.”
“To receive these honors speaks again to the quality of our employees and entire cardiovascular team,” said Susan Holbrook-Preston, chief operating officer and chief nursing executive for The Indiana Heart Hospital. “The awards are a testament to our ongoing commitment to provide a high quality and safe outcome and exceptional experience to the patients and families we serve.”
