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Events and ClassesFind Out if Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery is Right for You | February 6 | 6 - 7:30 p.m.,Does back pain interfere with your quality of life and mobility? Find out how you can get moving again with minimally invasive spine surgery at Scottsdale Healthcare. Join our expert orthopedic spine surgeons, Edward Dohring, MD and Paul Gause, MD for a free presentation on this procedure, which means less pain, scarring, shorter hospital and recovery time.
Light refreshments will be served. Learn About a New Non-Surgical Heart Valve Replacement Surgery | February 16 | 6:30-8 p.m.,With today's technology and medical advances, treatment for many heart conditions isn't what it used to be. Find out what's new in cardiology. Plus, see a taping a two cases as they were performed, including the new non-surgical heart valve replacement procedure, the FDA approved Edwards SAPIEN Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valve. Chocolate, Grapes and Heart Disease Prevention Guidelines for Women | March 22 | 6:30-8p.m.,Karen Stark, MD, cardiologist, will present on the latest heart disease prevention guidelines for women. The American Heart Association, in collaboration with national organizations dedicated to women’s health, have released new life-saving guidelines for the prevention of heart disease. In addition, Jan Turner, Registered Dietitian, Scottsdale Healthcare Shea Medical Center Cardiac Rehabilitation, will present on heart healthy eating including chocolate, grapes and spices.
A special chocolate and grape tasting will follow lecture.
Scottsdale Healthcare Quality MeasurementsScottsdale Healthcare has created reliable care systems through leadership, teamwork, and patient and family-centered care. Reliable systems produce consistent care, ensuring that patients admitted with pneumonia or heart attack promptly receive critically important medications, such as antibiotics and aspirin. Scottsdale Healthcare outperforms both state and national averages on those potentially life-saving measures.
Scottsdale Healthcare named Arizona's 1st Magnet hospital systemScottsdale Healthcare is Arizona's first multihospital health system to receive Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, a division of the American Nurses Association. Magnet designation is considered the "gold standard" of nursing care for American hospitals. Erivedge skin cancer drug tested at Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center gets FDA approvalThe Food and Drug Administration's approval of a new drug studied at Scottsdale Healthcare's Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials gives hope to patients with a type of advanced skin cancer -- patients who, until now, had no other treatment options. Get Your Gown On campaign focuses on prostate cancer awareness, treatmentGet Your Gown Own, a health education campaign from the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare, aims to raise awareness about the need for annual prostate cancer screenings and the success of early detection and treatment of the disease. New TAVR heart valve doesn't require open heart surgery Doctors at Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center were the first in Arizona to perform a recently approved noninvasive heart valve replacement procedure called Sapien transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR. The valve is inserted via a catheter through the femoral artery, without requiring open heart surgery.
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