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Parkview Medical Center was honored recently by Women’s Choice as one of the best hospitals in the country for heart care. Women’s Choice put Parkview Medical Center among the best 407 out of nearly 4,800 hospitals that offer heart care, meaning that Parkview is among the top 8.5 percent of hospitals nationwide for heat care.

It’s the week of May 6 through 12 and it’s time to celebrate nurses and hospital staff as part of Nurses’ Week and Hospital Week. This week was chosen as nurses’ week in honor of Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Nightingale is credited as the founder of modern nursing for her groundbreaking work during the Crimean War in 1854 and later establishing a nursing school in London, the first such secular school in the world.

Parkview Medical Center is proud to announce the start of a new fellowship program to train cardiologists. The program was officially approved in April and the first class of three cardiology fellows will begin their education in July under the guidance of Dr. Wallacy Garcia of Pueblo Cardiology Associates. Each class will have three fellows and at full strength, the program will be training nine new cardiologists.

Parkview Medical Center has reached a miletson this month in its efforts to train quality phlebotomists. Parkview opened its schoolof phlebotomy in 2017. The program will celebrate its fifth graduation on Friday, recognizing eight students who completed a 15-week course to earn a certification from the American Society of Clinical Pathologists and possibly a job at Parkview Medical Center.

Parkview Honored by Red Cross as Pueblo Heroes

This week, Parkview Medical Center officially opened the new waiting from for its emergency department at the main hospital downtown. Finishing the waiting room marks the first step in a multiphase process that will end with a greatly expanded Emergency Room Downtown, nearly twice the size of the current emergency department by 2020.

Parkview Medical Center is a busy place. But we try to take advantage of every opportunity we can to recognize the hard-working staff who make it possible to provide the best health care to Pueblo and Southern Colorado.