Overlake enhances cardiology services with new clinic

Published 10:49 am Monday, July 18, 2011

Overlake Hospital Medical Center has enhanced its cardiology services with a new clinic that integrates the services of two cardiology private practices and brings them into the Overlake Medical Clinic network.

Overlake Medical Clinics Cardiology will have offices in the main campus, the Bellevue medical district across the street from Overlake, and in Issaquah. Overlake has hired 13 doctors, two nurse practitioners and 27 staff members formerly with Overlake Internal Medicine Associates’ cardiology department and Bellevue Cardiology.

Over the past two years, Overlake has focused on adding new primary and specialty care clinics and expanding its employed physician network to better integrate services and better serve patients.

“Overlake and our affiliated cardiac physicians have created one of the leading cardiac centers in the Puget Sound region,” said David Schultz, executive vice president and chief operating officer. “This closer alignment will allow us to further grow and develop Overlake’s already exceptional cardiac program.”

This new clinic will be a piece of the larger puzzle to create a centralized Heart & Vascular Center on campus, said Overlake Director of Marketing and Public Relations Patrick Moody. The $15 million project would bring cardiology experts under the same umbrella to offer services.

“We have plans to develop a centralized heart and vascular center,” he said. “The opening of the clinic helps us to put in place one of the pieces for that plan.

In addition to the cardiology clinic, Overlake’s current Cardiac Center includes two cardiac catheterization labs, an electrophysiology lab, nuclear cardiology and echocardiography services and a cardiothoracic surgery clinic. Overlake performs approximately 5,200 cardiac interventions and 350 heart surgeries each year.

Nat Levy can be reached at 425-453-4290.