Heart and Vascular Center to open at Wayne Memorial

HONESDALE — Wayne Memorial Hospital’s new Heart and Vascular Center will officially open June 1.
The diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization lab was granted approval by the Pennsylvania Department of Health this month, after accreditation by Corazon Inc., one of only two organizations licensed to accredit catheterization laboratories in the state. The approvals mean the center has met strict guidelines and is able to offer percutaneous coronary intervention.
The multi-million dollar investment by Wayne Memorial Hospital grew out of a 2013 Community Health Needs Assessment that pointed to a high need for more cardiology services and particularly for cardiology specialists. Construction for the new lab began in October 2015. Medical director Raymond Resnick, MD, FACC, FSCAI, who has more than a quarter-century of cardiology experience, helped oversee the completion of the project.
Cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services are being relocated to the same floor.
Coronary interventions performed in hospitals without cardiovascular surgical backup were first approved in Pennsylvania in 2001. Today, about one-third of all catheterization labs in the U.S. that perform angioplasty services exist in hospitals without surgical backup with positive patient outcomes according to studies by the American College of Cardiology.