“These efforts represent a significant investment in the future of NCH’s cardiovascular program,” says Alan Loren, MD, Chief Medical Officer at NCH. “NCH patients will benefit from a full range of integrated cardiac services without leaving the northwest suburbs.”Medical research shows that cardiovascular models of physician leadership and clinical collaboration help improve outcomes and reduces average lengths of stay in the hospital.
NCH Affiliates With Loyola Vascular Surgeons; Adds Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon
In August, NCH began an affiliation with Loyola University Medical Center vascular surgeons who will serve on the NCH Medical Staff and will provide full-time onsite vascular consultations, surgical, endovascular and interventional procedures, outpatient clinic and office visits, and on-call coverage. “Loyola is pleased to be working closely with Northwest Community Healthcare in order to make our nationally ranked cardiovascular care convenient to residents throughout the region,” said Daniel J. Post, Senior Vice President, Clinical Programs, and Chief Business Development Officer at Loyola.
Vascular surgeons Jae Sung Cho, MD, FACS, and Paul Crisostomo, MD, joined the NCH staff in mid-August. Dr. Cho is a nationally known authority in minimally invasive approaches to vascular disease, especially of the thoracic and abdominal aorta. Prior to serving as chief of vascular surgery and endovascular therapy at Loyola University Medical Center, he was chief of vascular surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Mercy, and a professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. Cho earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of California at Irvine. He completed a residency in general surgery and a research fellowship in vascular surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. He is a professor in the Department of Surgery at Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine.
Dr. Crisostomo, a vascular and endovascular surgeon whose areas of clinical focus include carotid disease, venous insufficiency and aortic aneurysms, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received bachelor’s degrees in biology, biochemistry and Spanish. He received his medical degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and completed a residency in general surgery and a fellowship in vascular surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine. At Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine, he is an assistant professor in the Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, Department of Surgery.
NCH also added cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon Vu Hoang, MD, to its medical staff. Dr. Hoang specializes in minimally invasive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. Dr. Hoang received his bachelor’s and medical degrees through the University of Florida Honors Program. Additionally, he completed his general surgery residency at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore and thoracic surgery residency at State University of New York at Buffalo.
Dr. Hoang recently joined Cardiac Surgery Associates S. C. and began treating patients at NCH in late August. In January, NCH and Cardiac Surgery Associates announced a new affiliation to provide cardiovascular and thoracic surgery and named David DeBoer, MD, as chief of cardiovascular surgery at NCH. The new affiliation will more closely integrate hospital- and office-based care, improving patient experience and outcomes across the continuum of care.
NCH Heart & Vascular Specialists Meets Needs of Cardiology Patients
To more closely integrate hospital-based care with services in the community, NCH has established outpatient services in collaboration with two local cardiology practices. Patients can receive cardiology services at the following locations: 880 W. Central Road, Ste. 7100, and 1632 W. Central Road, Arlington Heights, just minutes from the NCH campus. Physician services will be provided by a newly formed physician group, NCH Heart & Vascular Specialists, LLC.
The cardiac diagnostic testing previously performed in these offices, such as stress testing, echocardiograms, and vascular ultrasounds will be consolidated and offered at the new outpatient facility, NCH Cardiac Diagnostics, 1632 W. Central Road. In addition, the physicians will be working with NCH to manage the cardiac service line and continually advance and improve the quality of patient care.
“The goal of this acquisition and affiliation is to advance the mission of NCH by more closely integrating hospital-based testing and services with the great office-based care these physicians have provided to our community for many years,” says NCH Chief Operating Officer Michael Hartke.
NCH’s Atherton Heart Failure Clinic to Help Patients After Discharge
NCH is opening a new outpatient clinic in October designed specifically for heart failure patients. The Atherton Heart Failure Clinic will be located inside the NCH Health Center at 199 W. Rand Road, Mount Prospect. The heart failure clinic is an innovative care delivery model that will create a consistent transition for each heart failure patient from the hospital to their homes.
Supervised by a cardiologist and led by an advanced practice nurse, a team of healthcare professionals—including physician assistants, nurse educators, nutritionists, social workers and pharmacists—will see heart failure patients at the clinic within 72 hours of their discharge from NCH. The team will provide medical care and one-on-one support, communicating directly with the patient’s primary care physician or cardiologist to provide an individualized plan of care.
“The location offers easy access and is ideal for patients who may have difficulty or be too weak to navigate the hospital campus,” says Dr. Paul Ruzumna, chief of cardiology at NCH.
About Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH)Serving Chicago’s northwest suburbs since 1959, NCH is a comprehensive, patient-centered system of care that serves more than 350,000 outpatients each year and more than 20,000 inpatients treated annually at the 496-bed acute care hospital in Arlington Heights. The award-winning hospital holds the prestigious Magnet designation for nursing excellence, is designated as a Primary Stroke Center, earned the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval in 2011, and was awarded the Leapfrog Group’s designation as one of the nation’s Top Hospitals based on quality and safety criteria. NCH has four Immediate Care locations in the northwest suburbs and operates a FastCare Clinic in Palatine. NCH has a medical staff of more than 1,000 physicians, which includes the board-certified primary care doctors and specialists of the NCH Medical Group. The physicians referenced herein have selected our facility as a place where they want to treat and care for their private patients. For more information or to find a doctor on the NCH Medical staff, visit www.nch.org.
About Loyola University Health SystemLoyola is a nationally recognized leader in providing healthcare and in conducting ground-breaking research to treat heart disease, cancer, organ transplantation and neurological disorders. Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC) is the core of Loyola and one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers. The LUMC campus in Maywood, Ill., includes the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the Ronald McDonald® Children's Hospital of Loyola, Burn/Trauma Center, and Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine. Loyola also includes the Gottlieb Hospital campus in Melrose Park, Ill., Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and the Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. Loyola is part of Livonia, Mich.-based CHE Trinity Health, one of the nation’s largest multi-institutional Catholic healthcare delivery systems. It serves people and communities in 20 states from coast to coast with 86 hospitals, 109 continuing-care facilities and an expansive network of home health and hospice programs. For more information, visit www.loyolamedicine.org.
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