Dr. Brendan Parfrey Heart patients throughout Newfoundland and Labrador are benefiting from remarkable advances in cardiac care delivery that have been achieved in recent months through a special project focusing on improving capacity and reducing wait times. Eastern Health’s Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s has the only cardiac catheterization laboratory, or cath lab, in the province. Many patients have to travel long distances to get there, sometimes by road and air ambulance. Until recently, difficulties with scheduling and utilization in the cath lab often led to lengthy wait times for patients and the uncertainty of not knowing when they would have their procedures. “We had the expertise, the equipment and committed staff but lacked some of the processes to deliver the service that we know we
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