Vim & Vigor - Fall 2008 - North Denver - (Page 50) ng roi ze 0 0 0 0 50 vim & vigor · fal l 2 008 to cardiac s hen it comes w nce takes ieving excelle ac h d focus teamwork an in urgery, Zero. “According to the Society for Thoracic Surgeons’ national database, the riskadjusted coronary surgery mortality rate for St. Anthony Central last year was zero. It doesn’t get any better than that,” Walker says. That same database would show a mortality rate of well under 1 percent for Walker’s most recent 600 coronary artery bypass graft surgeries, one of the most common open-heart procedures. a team approach by carla carwile umbers are big news in healthcare these days, particularly when it comes to quality. Consumers are able to track care outcomes by hospital, diagnosis, length of stay and cost. Medical professionals can drill down even further by using proprietary databases to compare and contrast their service delivery with that of other providers. This explains why cardiothoracic surgeons E. Lance Walker, M.D., and his partners Allan Brants, M.D., and Jeff Morelock, M.D., take rightful pride in one of the newest numbers recorded by St. Anthony Central Hospital. N A physician partner of CVS Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Walker has been performing surgery at St. Anthony Central since 1976. He credits the hospital’s superior coronary outcomes to a surgical philosophy focused more on fine-tuning proven approaches than on headline-making innovation, and to extraordinary collaboration among caregivers. “St. Anthony Central has a well-earned reputation for its emergency cardiovascular care, and we work closely with the cardiologists, but when surgery is required, every detail becomes important,” Walker says. “Outcomes are directly related to the risks each individual patient presents. That includes the strength of the heart, the complexity and timing of the surgery, as well as the other health
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