News Desk Viet Nam News Publication Date : 13-10-2014 Vietnam has seen an alarming increase in cases of hypertension and heart disease following its rapid socio-economic development in recent decades. At the opening ceremony of the 14th National Congress of Cardiology yesterday, Pham Gia Khai, president of the Viet Nam National Heart Association (VNHA), noted that about 25 per cent of the Vietnamese population aged more than 25 years suffered from hypertension and heart disease. Khai also said the number of people suffering from cardiopathy and hypertension sharply increased from 11.5 per cent of the population in 1992 to 24.1 per cent in 2008, but the figure kept rising while the number of cardiology hospitals and heart surgeons had yet to match patients' demand. "In spite of rapid development and achievements in cardiological surgery since the 1960s, Vietnam has been witness to an overload of cardiovascular patients at hospitals," he added. About 2,000 people, including 100 experts and cardiological surgeons, are taking part in the biennial event. The experts and surgeons come from countries including the United States, France, Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Read this article: Heart disease on the rise as Vietnam pays price … Continue reading →

Hospital receives cardiology award Doylestown Hospital was one of the 256 hospitals that was awarded the American College of Cardiology's NCDR ACTION Registry GWTG Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2014. This award is in recognition of the hospitals heart attack care and their commitment to success in implementing a higher standard of care. In order to receive this award, hospitals need to consistently follow the treatment guidelines in the ACTION Registry GWTG Premier for eight consecutive quarters and meet a performance standard of 90 percent for certain performance measures. Local ambulance corps receives national certification Cetronia Ambulance Corps was recently awarded a national re-accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services. The award was given for its compliance in meeting national standards of both organizational and clinical excellence in the ambulance service industry. Cetronia Ambulance is one of six agencies that achieved this level of excellence, less than one percent of over 17,000 EMS agencies nationwide. This was the second re-accreditation process Cetronia Ambulance has gone through to maintain its high standards. The focus isn't only on patient care, but organizational policies and procedures, operational and administrative functionalities and relationships with other agencies. Grant awarded to Lehigh County Conservation … Continue reading →