Heart & Vascular News

Barnes-Jewish Hospital participated in developing potential new standard performance measures for The Joint Commission's Comprehensive Stroke Certification Program.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital participated in an 18-month “Preventing Falls with Injury” project that reduced patient falls with injury by 62 percent and the total number of patient falls by 35 percent.

Specialists at the Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Heart & Vascular Center are the first in the region to add a second valve option for use in the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure, making it possible to treat a wider range of patients.

The Fetal Care Center has now been accepted into the North American Fetal Therapy Network (NAFTNet), a group of 28 medical centers in the United States and Canada that perform advanced in-utero fetal therapeutic procedures.