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Show Transcript TONIGHT FROM THE NORTHSIDE. PAUL: TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED, IN LATE SEPTEMBER CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS TOOK UP JUST 1% OF THE BEDS HERE AT ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL. BY LATE NOVEMBER, THAT NUMBER WAS UP TO 14%. BUT THE INCREASE HAS BEEN EVEN MORE DRAMATIC AT OTHER AREA HOSPITALS. COVID PATIENTS HAVE SURGED IN AREA HOSPITALS DURING THE PAST TWO MONTHS. FROM LATE SEPTEMBER TO LATE NOVEMBER, THE PERCENTAGE OF COVID PATIENTS INCREASED FROM 1% TO 16% AT UPMC PASSAVANT. FROM 4% TO 27% AT EXCELA WESTMORELAND. AND FROM 9% TO 32% AT EXCELA LATROBE. EXCELA SAYS ABOUT 40% OF ALL ITS CURRENT PATIENTS HAVE COVID. WE’RE MAKING CHANGES ALMOST REALLY MINUTE BY MINUTE, SOMETIMES MOVING STAFF FROM ONE TO ANOTHER, SOMETIMES MOVING A PATIENT WHO PRESEN
Allegheny Health Network on Thursday announced the appointment of a vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Veronica Villalobos will fill the position, working closely with AHN’s recently hired Chief Clinical Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew. Together, they’ll strive to build an inclusive workforce and address health disparities among patients and within the region.
“I’m really excited to work with Dr. Pettigrew and other parts of the leadership team at AHN to really improve health care for everyone and to improve the work environment for all the professionals that we have on staff,” Villalobos said. “When you create an environment where they feel valued and like they belong, they’re going to create a wonderful experience for the patients and that really is the goal.”
The cardiology team at Trinity Health System welcomes its two newest members.
STEUBENVILLE Trinity Health System announces the expansion of its cardiology group to include two interventional cardiologists.
Gregory Suero Abreu, M.D., and Triston Smith, M.D., who most recently practiced at Wheeling Hospital, have agreed to join the Trinity Health System family.
What this means for the hospital’s cardiovascular program is the ability to offer a new service that is less invasive than open heart surgery. The best treatment option for people in need of aortic valve replacement is open-heart surgery, but for those at high risk opening the heart is too dangerous. Now there is hope; it’s called TAVR, or transcatheter aortic valve replacement. With TAVR, a pen-hole sized incision allows a new valve to be inserted through a catheter, providing a less invasive procedure that leads to faster recovery at home. With the addition of these two qualified physicians, Trinity Health System wil