Advance Cardiology Specialists joins Geisinger

Geisinger Community Medical Center plans to ramp up its repertoire next month when Advanced Cardiology Specialists of Scranton joins its ranks.

The six-member physician group is to formally enter under Geisingers umbrella March 1, bringing with them 18 staffers.

The physicians and advanced practitioners at ACS all are top-notch professionals, Stephen Voyce, M.D., of ACS said. The thing that we were lacking is infrastructure.

Anthony Aquilina, D.O., GCMCs chief medical officer, said the integration was a natural evolution that follows the hospitals core mission.

Heart care is not a static thing; theres new innovations in heart care all the time, Dr. Aquilina said. The reason we engaged with Advanced Cardiology

Specialists is we saw a like-minded

organization.

ACS main office along the Morgan Highway and satellite office in Carbondale will remain open under the new name Geisinger Cardiology Scranton.

The physicians have been working with Community Medical Center for decades, and Dr. Voyce was made the hospitals heart institute co-director around the time Geisinger acquired the hospital in 2011. GCMC officials credit ACS expertise for the hospital becoming accredited by the American Heart Association as a heart attack receiving center, and by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care as a chest pain center, both designations that help emergency workers decide where to take heart attack patients.

GCMC also is one of four hospitals in the state to score significantly lower than expected mortality rates for heart attack medical management with the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment

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