Heart & Vascular – Wellspring

Putting Her Heart in Good Hands

It was during a regular primary care checkup four to five years ago that Khoa Le first learned she had some kind of issue with her heart. “They said there was maybe a murmur and […]

‘ExPERT’ Team’s Quick Response Saves Lives Shirley Webb was out of breath just trying to put on her loafers. At first she thought she’d gained too much weight during COVID. But her daughter, Maria Silva, […]

Imagine you’re flying over a busy metropolis. When you look down you can see a system of major highways with onramps, exits, and smaller roadways branching out across the city. That’s one way to think […]

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a serious condition, but it can be managed and controlled — and the risk of hospitalization reduced —especially if a CHF patient falls under the watchful eye of a special NorthBay Health program. […]

NorthBay Health Foundation has its work cut out for it: to raise $12 million as soon as possible to update and upgrade two aging catheterization labs at NorthBay Health Medical Center. Failure is not an […]

Cardiac catheterization has come a long way since the first angioplasty was performed in the late 1970s in Europe. Likewise, procedures and equipment at NorthBay Health’s catheterization labs have advanced since the first lab was […]

Walter Franklin likes to get things done. He’ll put all his daily tasks on a yellow Post-it note, and even if there are five or more, he doesn’t like to stop until he’s done. But […]

In 2009, NorthBay Health was just starting to launch its full Heart & Vascular Center, introducing everything from minimally invasive catheterization lab procedures to much more complex open heart surgery. Fast forward 14 years and […]

Solano County residents with heart arrhythmias used to have to travel out of the county to receive specialized care from a cardiac electrophysiologist. Now that service is just another one of the many advanced offerings […]

Vacaville resident Ted Neima keeps a small slip of paper in his wallet — a fortune cookie message he got the night before he had a valve in his heart surgically replaced. “Look forward to great fortune […]

Fairfield resident Angela Kirk had just left a birthday party in Vacaville with her sons, then age 7 and 5, when she made a detour to let one of them use the restroom at an […]

Above: Steven Gwiazdowski, M.D., cradles one of his young charges in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at NorthBay Medical Center. Neonatologist Steven Gwiazdowski, M.D., had his heart set on becoming a pilot, but that was […]

When it comes to matters of the heart, patients of NorthBay Heart & Vascular Center are served by a team steeped in military know-how, from one of NorthBay Healthcare’s long-time cardiologists and a nurse practitioner, […]

Technology Produces Images, Helps with Pain Blocks Many people are familiar with the use of ultrasound imaging in medicine—it’s most commonly used to capture an image of a developing baby in the mother’s womb. But […]

H is for Heart & Vascular

Heart Failure Academy: Your Partner for Life Nurse practitioners Dana Gill, left, and Sherry Ramirez explain the intricacies of heart health, as part of NorthBay’s Heart Failure Academy, to Ernest Maligaya. No one plans to […]