Vascular Surgery

Overview

Our vascular specialists address aortic disease, complex arterial reconstruction, limb salvage, pulmonary embolism, venous disease and advanced wound care. These peripheral vascular diseases can be treated with an endovascular and open approach.

Accomplishments

• Our teams initiated an enhanced recovery after surgery program to improve outcomes, speed recovery times and decrease hospital length of stay for patients.
• Serving as only one of four hospitals in the nation—and the first in Texas and the Southwest—to attain the status of Vascular Verification through the American College of Surgeons in collaboration with the Society for Vascular Surgery. This designation is awarded to facilities that demonstrate commitment to the highest standard of vascular care and consistently strive to minimize complications, improve outcomes, save lives and preserve limbs.
• Due to the strength and expertise of our vascular program, two staff physicians are reviewers for the Vascular Verification.
• For the ninth and fourth years in a row, respectively, Plano and Denton have been awarded the SVS/VQI Three-Star Rating, placing the hospitals among the top 12% in the nation for quality in vascular surgery.
• Plano has developed a patient-centered process that encourages patients to actively participate in their care through shared decision-making. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has required this for carotid angioplasty and stenting, but our vascular care team has implemented it for all carotid procedures with patients.
• Two of our vascular APPs—Gabriell Grayson, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, CV-BC, and Liza Singh, MSN, RN, AGACNP-BC—received the Award for Clinical Excellence in Vascular Nursing from the Society for Vascular Nursing for outstanding clinical skill and direct patient care delivery.