Healthgrades named the recipients of its 2023 Specialty Excellence Awards on Oct. 25, and the list includes the top hospitals for cardiac care.

Barry Zaret, MD, widely considered the founder of nuclear cardiology, passed away Oct. 20 at the age of 82, Yale School of Medicine said in a release.

Data analysis from the Los Angeles-based Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai found heart attack deaths rose significantly with COVID-19 surges, including omicron surges.

Here are five hospitals and health systems hiring cardiologists.

Here are four cardiologists who recently stepped into new roles:

Farmington, Conn.-based UConn Health's new transcatheter aortic valve replacement program helped one of its first patients in September.

Here are five cardiology studies and findings Becker's has reported since Oct. 5:

Here are four cardiology partnerships covered by Becker's since Oct. 14:

Interventional cardiology is the last subspecialty within cardiology to not use a match system to place fellows into programs, and it's time to change that, an article by TCTMD said on Oct. 19.

Tampa (Fla.) General Heart & Vascular Institute is partnering with Recora, a technology company focused on cardiac rehabilitation, to provide a virtual cardiac recovery program to outpatients across 23 counties in Florida.

HCA Healthcare and HCA Healthcare Foundation donated $15 million to the American Heart Association as part of its partnership for a national stroke initiative, an HCA spokesperson told Becker's.

Cedars-Sinai cardiologist Dr. Asher Kimchi died Oct. 7 at age 76.

Four medical schools are partnering on a $31 million study evaluating a new method for pacing the heart in people with heart failure and conduction system disease, according to an Oct. 11 article on Virginia Commonwealth University's website.

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger promoted Dr. Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman to chief of clinical electrophysiology.

Here are four cardiology milestones systems have achieved since Oct. 5:

Wyoming, Mich.-based UM Health-West and Livonia-Mich.-based Trinity Health partnered to create an open-heart surgery operating room in the Grand Rapids, Mich., area, MLive reported Oct. 13.

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine named Douglas Johnston, MD, surgical director of its Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute and chief of the department of cardiac surgery at its medical school and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. 

Livingston, N.J.-based Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center cardiologists recently completed their 500th left atrial appendage closure device implant for patients with atrial fibrillation, TapIntoLivingston reported Oct. 12.

Washington, D.C.-based MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute appointed Keki Balsara, MD, as surgical director of heart failure and transplantation.

A review paper found several common heart medications have potential drug-drug interactions with Paxlovid, an antiviral commonly prescribed to patients with mild or moderate COVID-19, according to an Oct. 12 news release.