Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center has completed a professional services agreement with Pueblo Cardiology Associates to expand its heart program. Four physician from Pueblo Cardiology Associates will by providing services at the clinic in Buena Vista and the recently-opened Outpatient Pavilion at the hospital in Salida starting July 1.
The local practice will be known as HRRMC Cardiology. Dr. Kenneth Wool of Colorado Springs Cardiology will also continue to provide cardiology services at HRRMC, according to a press release.
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The new Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center Pavilion opened May 20, consolidates HRRMC health services on their regional campus, while adding new services such as HRRMC Cardiology. Photo by Dan Smith.
“We are absolutely thrilled with the addition of the Pueblo cardiologists to the HRRMC family of providers,” said HRRMC Vice President of Business Development Peter Edis. “According to the CDC, heart disease is responsible for one in every four deaths in the United States. Consequently, the growth of cardiology services couldn’t be more meaningful to the residents of Chaffee County.”
The board-certified, fellowship-trained cardiologists are Laurence A. Berarducci, M.D., FACC; George Gibson, M.D., FACC; Stephen Mac Kerrow, M.D., FACC; and Kathleen Brown, M.D.
Berarducci earned his degree in medicine from Wayne State University in Detroit. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit and a three-year fellowship in cardiology at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He also served as a major with the United States Air Force Medical Service Corps at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
Gibson earned his medical degree from Hahnemann University School of Medicine (now Drexel University College of Medicine) in Philadelphia. He completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowships in interventional/advanced cardiology procedures and then core clinical cardiology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.
Mac Kerrow earned his degree in medicine from the University of California in Davis. He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Brown received her medical degree and completed a residency in internal medicine at Rush University in Chicago. She completed fellowships in cardiology, electrophysiology and physiology research at Rush University.
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