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Doctors help Faith Regional start cardiovascular program Norfolk Daily
News - Friday, Sept. 14, 2001 Faith Regional Health Services is about to take a significant step forward in fighting heart disease. Monday will be the beginning of 24-hour, on-call service for interventional heart catheterization provided by Dr. Thomas Brandt, a widely known cardiologist who has been recruited to help start Faith Regional's cardiovascular program. He will give patients whose arteries have plugged or have collapsed a second chance at healthy lives by installing stents and performing balloon angioplasties -- procedures that previously were only available to patients who traveled to Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Omaha or Lincoln. Also, in the months to follow, Dr. Daniel Domjan will begin doing open-heart surgeries in Norfolk. Just last week, he signed a contract to move his cardiovascular surgery practice to Norfolk from Missouri. But the addition of Brandt and Domjan to Norfolk's medical staff is likely just the start. Within three years there could be as many as ten cardiologists like Brandt and two heart surgeons like Domjan performing their procedures on hundreds or even thousands of Northeast Nebraskans annually. These are some of the significant changes that are coming about with the recently formed Faith Regional CardioVascular Institute. "This is not about doing a brand new service, this is about expanding the scope of our existing cardiovascular services," Bob Driewer, administrator of Faith Regional Health Services. home | health information | careers | classes & events For
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