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Currently, the hospital has to transport patients to other labs for those types of treatments."The less amount of time we waste, the less amount of damage you have," Perez said.To keep everything in-house, MGH hired Dr.

Hamid Nawaz, who brings more than 14 years of experience in interventional, nuclear and clinical cardiology.Nawaz will be performing angioplasty and cardiac stent insertion, which Ann Vermilion, administrative director, said is a first for Grant County."MGH's decision to expand our cath lab department is due, in part, to the anticipated increase of angioplasty and cardiac stent procedures," she said.In addition to new staff and equipment, Perez said they are getting a state-of-the-art waiting room and there will be eight private recovery rooms.With a new paperless system, Perez said patients now would be able to check into the cath lab, as opposed to going through admissions.

Once they are admitted, they don't have to move to another location."We do the whole admission before the procedure.

They don't have to move at all," she said.

"I think it's going to be very efficient."The paperless system also will allow all nurses' notes and vital information to flow into the hospital's system.Vermilion said not having to move the patients and their families to different lo...

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