Health care
BY DON MUNSCH
Health Care Edition
2024
Community Impact ’s annual Health Care Edition features news on the timeliest topics in the industry. Content ranges from major health care developments to listings of nearby health care facilities. Articles within this guide are focused on local topics a ecting your community, the metro and the state of Texas, and are written by our team of journalists to meet our mission of providing trusted news and information everyone gets. Our lead story this month takes a look at the air we breathe in Denton County. We’ve also included information on local health care facilities on page 15. We’re fortunate to have great health care options in Flower Mound, Highland Village, Argyle and Northlake.
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The cardiac catheterization lab at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound o ers conve- nience and versatility, o cials said. The background The lab opened last July. Physicians can conduct various procedures including heart catheter- izations, cardiac angiograms and peripheral angiograms. Dr. Geetha Ramaswamy, an interventional cardiologist at Texas Health Flower Mound, said treatment times vary based on the testing patients need. “It could be as short as 20 minutes and as long as an hour, hour and a half,” she said. A closer look Ramaswamy said the lab has been “fantastic,” and she thinks patients have the same view, as they and their families can stay nearby for procedures. “It’s been a real game changer for people who Flower Mound hospital touts new catheterization lab
Tommy Leathers, catheterization lab-interventional radiology manager, and Dr. Geetha Ramaswamy, stand near equipment used for patient care in the catheterization lab at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Flower Mound.
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Manager Tommy Leathers said. “We took it slow to begin just because we were opening up a new service here, but we’ve steadily been picking up business,” Leathers said. He said the lab sees about an average of ve people per day. Half come from outpatient services, and the other half from the emergency department. “We are putting in a budget [request] for getting new state-of-the-art X-ray equipment, which will hopefully be done within the next year,” he said.
have peripheral artery disease,” she said, noting that disease is one of the critical diseases treated. The lab has expanded its crew since opening and will add other procedures. Plans are also in the works to expand the physical space. Ramaswamy said she hopes physicians will eventually be able to start conducting angiograms that can be per- formed in a “super urgent fashion” for a speci c type of heart attack. The outlook The lab has been seeing more patients, Lab
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