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Columbia Cardiology Opens
New Office in Lugoff
January 26, 2010
Columbia Cardiology is pleased
to announce our expansion to Kershaw County! Our group of Board Certified
Cardiologists looks forward to locally serving the families of Kershaw County
and the surrounding communities.
For your convenience, we will be
opening an office located at 1 The Common in Lugoff, SC on February 3, 2010. The
office will initially be open Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10:00am to
2:00pm with plans to soon become a full-time location for our practice. Stephen
Van Horn, Jr., MD, FACC will be the primary Cardiologist in the Lugoff office
and is currently accepting new patients. Dr. Van Horn is a native of Camden and
is honored to have the opportunity to serve his hometown and surrounding areas.
The physicians and staff of
Columbia Cardiology are dedicated to providing the highest level of care in the
diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. We are excited to provide
services which will enhance the continuum of care available locally in Kershaw
County. Please do not hesitate to contact our office with any further questions
at 803-744-4900.
Columbia Cardiology - New Office Opens
October 1, 2008
Columbia Cardiology announces the Grand Opening of their new office located at
131 Sunset Court in West Columbia. New patients are now being accepted.
Local Physician
Assistant Awarded Diplomate Status
September 22, 2008
Eric Shoup, physician
assistant at Columbia Cardiology, LLC has recently been awarded Diplomate status
with the Accreditation Council for Clinical Lipidology (ACCL). The ACCL is a
nonprofit certifying organization dedicated to reducing the morbidity and
mortality from dyslipidemia and related diseases by assessing qualifications and
certifying knowledge in clinical lipidology.
Mr. Shoup is one of the first physician assistants from across the nation who
have achieved this important credential. ACCL Diplomates can use the title of
“Clinical Lipid Specialist” and append the letters “CLS” to their names in
formal contexts. The designation indicates those allied health professionals who
have distinguished themselves among their colleagues by having satisfied the
credentialing and testing requirements established by the ACCL.
To obtain Diplomate status with the ACCL, an allied health professional must
complete a range of continuing medical education requirements and successfully
pass a rigorous examination. Professionals in the area of lipid
management specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of cholesterol disorders
known as dyslipidemia, which may cause atherosclerosis and cardiovascular
disease. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is responsible for approximately
one-third of all deaths in the U.S.
For more information on certification, visit
www.lipidspecialist.org.
To learn more about dyslipidemia and the field of lipidology, visit the National
Lipid Association website at
www.lipid.org.
For more information
on the Accreditation Council for Clinical Lipidology, contact Daniel Sosnoski,
Director of Communications, at
dsosnoski@lipid.org.
Columbia Cardiology's
Echocardiography Laboratory is Granted Accreditation
March 25, 2008
 One
American dies every 32 seconds of cardiovascular disease, disorders of the heart
and blood vessels. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in
the United states, costing society over 83.7 billion dollars each year in health
services, medications and lost work time due to disability. Cardiac
structure and flow information provided by echocardiographic testing is useful
in the detection and management of many types of heart disease. The
noninvasive test has become one of the standard diagnostic tools in cardiology
with an estimated 10 million echocardiograms performed annually in the United
States. Echocardiography is a complex imaging technique that relies on the
experience an training of both the physician and sonographer. Their
interpretive and technical abilities determine the diagnostic accuracy of an
echocardiographic examination. The Intersocietal Commission for the
Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories (ICAEL) has developed an
accreditation program which evaluates the quality of these and other critical
elements of an echocardiography laboratory.
Columbia Cardiology's Echocardiography Laboratory in Columbia,
South Carolina was granted accreditation by the Intersocietal Commission for the
Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories (ICAEL). The laboratory is
one of the first one thousand echocardiography laboratories in the United
States, Canada and Puerto Rico to be so recognized for its commitment to high
quality patient care and its provision of quality diagnostic testing.
The ICAEL was established with the support of the American Society
Echocardiography (ASE), the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Society
of Pediatric Echocardiography (SOPE) to provide a peer review mechanism to
encourage and recognize the provision of quality echocardiographic diagnostic
evaluations by a process of voluntary accreditation. A non-profit
organization, the ICAEL is dedicated to ensuring high quality patient care and
to promoting health care.
Participation in the accreditation process is voluntary. Accreditation
status signifies that the facility has been reviewed by an independent agency
which recognizes the laboratory's commitment to quality testing for the
diagnosis of heart disease.
For more information, send an e-mail
Tamara Sloper.
Nuclear Laboratory Granted Accreditation
February 28, 2008
 One
American dies every 32 seconds of cardiovascular disease, disorders of the heart
and blood vessels. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in
the United states, costing society over 83.7 billion dollars each year in health
services, medications and lost work time due to disability. Each year,
approximately five and a half million stress nuclear cardiology studies are
performed in the United States. Both the pump function and the blood flow
of the heart are assessed during nuclear cardiology testing procedures. As
a result, physicians are able to detect the presence of cardiovascular disease
and may also discover important information regarding occurrence of future heart
attacks.
The heart is evaluated at rest and during exercise using a small amount of
radioisotope during the noninvasive procedure. A complex imaging
technique, nuclear cardiology testing relies on the experience and training of
both the physician and the technologist. Their interpretive and technical
abilities determine the diagnostic accuracy of the examination. The
Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Nuclear Medicine Laboratories
(ICANL) has developed an accreditation program that evaluates the quality of
these and other critical elements of a nuclear cardiology laboratory.
Columbia Cardiology is located in West Columbia, South Carolina, was
granted accreditation by the ICANL. The laboratory is one of the first
nuclear cardiology laboratories in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico to
be so recognized for its commitment to high quality patient care and its
provision of quality diagnostic testing.
The ICANL was established with the support of the American Society of Nuclear
Cardiology, the Society of Nuclear Medicine, the Society of Nuclear Medicine
Technologist Section, the American College of Cardiology, the American College
of Nuclear Physicians and the Academy of Molecular Imaging (formerly know as the
Institute for Clinical PET). The ICANL provides a peer review mechanism to
encourage and recognize the provision of quality nuclear cardiology and nuclear
medicine diagnostic evaluations by a process of voluntary accreditation. A
non-profit organization, the ICANL is dedicated to ensuring high quality patient
care and to promoting health care.
Participation in the accreditation process is voluntary. Accreditation
status signifies that the facility has been reviewed by an independent agency
that recognizes the laboratory's commitment to quality testing for the diagnosis
of heart disease.
For more information, send an e-mail
Tamara Sloper.
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