MedStar Health News

Lifesaving therapy offers hope for patients with advanced heart failure, serving as a bridge to heart transplantation or long-term therapy. WASHINGTON – MedStar Washington Hospital Center has re...

It is the only nationally recognized heart and vascular program of its kind in the Washington region. WASHINGTON – MedStar Washington Hospital Center has again been recognized among the nation&r...

The top-tier recognition underscores cardiac surgery programs’ excellence in patient care and outcomes. WASHINGTON – Two MedStar Health hospitals have been awarded the highest quality rati...

“Take10 Montgomery” is a campaign to earn HEARTSafe Community status, where residents are 10% more likely to survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. SILVER SPRING, Md. — MedStar H...

Clinton, MD – Interventional cardiologist, Sonia Samtani, MD, and an all-female team of specialists, performed the region’s first drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty in April at MedStar ...

Composite samples of the MRI images that AStrID, the Acute Stroke Imaging Database, will draw on to advance research that promises to optimize stroke rehabilitation. Collaboration between Georgetown a...