New center provides emergency heart care close to home

Melrose Free Press
By Daniel DeMaina
December 20th, 2007

“Time is muscle.”

So said Elaine Gale, Hallmark Health’s system director of cardiac and endovascular service, during a recent tour of the new Cardiac and Endovascular Center at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital.

“The more time you waste, the more you damage your heart,” Gale said.

Thus the purpose of the new center — to get heart attack victims north of Boston on the table more quickly and to allow collaboration between experts in the cardiology, endovascular and radiology departments.

Melrose Free Press
November 22, 2007

Hallmark Health has appointed Mark F. Mahnfeldt as the nursing director of Emergency Services at Melrose- Wakefield Hospital (MWH). Mahnfeldt has served as the interim director at MWH since July, and previously served in the critical care system-wide float team and as per diem supervisor.

Before joining Hallmark Health, Mahnfeldt worked at North Shore Medical Center in Salem, MA first as a registered nurse in the emergency department and then as clinical leader of the cardio-thoracic intensive care unit. Prior to this, he served as an RN in the emergency department of Boston Medical Center and then as an RN in the intensive care unit at New England Baptist Hospital, both in Boston, MA.

Mahnfeldt received his bachelors of science degree in Nursing from Northeastern University College of Nursing in Boston in 1996. He then completed both a legal nurse consulting program and paralegal certificate program at Northeastern in 1999. He is currently pursuing his MSN/MBA from Salem State College. For more information, visit www.hallmarkhealth.org.

Boston Globe
November 18, 2007
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/11/18/random_drug_testing/

Hallmark Health System has opened a Cardiac & Endovascular Center at its Melrose-Wakefield Hospital, which will offer patients diagnosis and treatment of heart and vascular disease. Among the procedures and services provided is angioplasty, a minimally invasive procedure to open blocked arteries. Melrose- Wakefield is one of seven hospitals in Massachusetts that was selected to participate in a state study of the benefits of elective angioplasties. Other procedures that will be performed at the new center include cardiac catheterization, coronary artery stenting, noninvasive cardiac testing, blood clot treatment, and vascular surgery. - Kay Lazar

Melrose Free Press
November 15, 2007

Hallmark Health System has opened the Printable Version