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Institute's main goal: Reducing rate of deaths across the area Norfolk Daily
News - Friday, Sept. 14, 2001 If Faith Regional Health Services CardioVascular Institute team does its job, the rate of deaths from heart disease in Northeast and North Central Nebraska will decline in the future. Dr. Daniel Domjan - a Hungarian-born heart surgeon from Cape Girardeau, MO, and the recently hired medical director of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at the Faith Regional Cardiovascular Institute - said he sees working with the startup of the institute as a rare opportunity to affect the long-term health of an entire region of people. "I'm merely a teammate in that long-term approach," he said. He said the problem with heart disease in the United States - including Northeast and North Central Nebraska - is that treatment often occurs in the late stages of development when balloon angioplasties, stents and open heart surgeries are necessary. But rather than relying on these complex and invasive procedures, Domjan said early intervention is more favorable. That's where Dr. Thomas Brandt, who is the new institute's medical director of interventional cardiology, comes into play. He, along with other Norfolk cardiologists, also will be working to keep local and area residents "heart healthy." Early intervention planned by the institute includes:
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