Earlier this month, Dr. Soon Park performed the first left ventricular assist device (LVAD) surgery in Rochester Regional Health's history. The LVAD procedure is a minimally invasive approach to implanting the newest heart pump available for people with congestive heart failure that are not be eligible for transplant. | Rochester Regional Health

Last month, TriHealth performed its first implantation of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) at Bethesda North Hospital. An LVAD is a mechanical pump implanted inside a patient’s chest to help a weakened heart pump blood. The introduction of this cutting-edge clinical technology is yet another important step in the development of TriHealth’s rapidly expanding our Advanced Heart program, based at our destination Heart Hospital on the Bethesda North campus. Not only was the procedure a succes