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Exclusive: OHSU’s Heart Failure Team Warned Program Would Collapse -- Then It Did

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A medical crisis hit the heart transplant program at Oregon Health & Science University the year before it collapsed. A rash of patients died, giving the program its worst outcomes in three decades.

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Lynne Terry

Providence Plans Heart Transplant Program To Fill Vacuum Left By OHSU

Providence Health & Services said Thursday it will start a heart transplant program thanks in part to a $75 million gift from Phil and Penny Knight.

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Lynne Terry

OHSU's Lead Cardiologist Steps Down Following Exodus Of Physicians

Dr. Sanjiv Kaul will relinquish leadership of the Knight Cardiovascular Institute to focus solely on research starting on Jan. 1.

Just over a month after the collapse of Oregon Health & Science University's heart transplant team, the university's top cardiologist is shedding his leadership role.

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Lynne Terry

Providence, OHSU Talk Cardiac: ‘Everything’s On The Table’

The two hospital groups are discussing a range of possibilities to serve heart failure patients after the implosion of Oregon Health & Science University’s heart transplant program.

Providence’s leading heart failure specialist, Dr. Jacob Abraham, is a busy man.

He sees patients and conducts research, recently helped oversee a clinical trial of a device that repairs a heart valve, increasing the life and survival rates of patients with few options.

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Lynne Terry

OHSU Heart Transplant Team Loses Another Professional

Robin Miller, an acute care nurse practitioner, is the fifth person to leave the team, which has imploded.

The heart transplant team at Oregon Health & Science University has lost another professional.

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Lynne Terry

OHSU Will Hire Consultants To Evaluate Suspended Heart Transplant Program

The new president of Oregon Health & Science University, Danny Jacobs, said in a statement that he plans to restart the program eventually.

Weeks after suspending its heart transplant program, Oregon Health & Science University announced it will hire outside consultants to look at what went wrong.

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Lynne Terry

OHSU's Heart Transplant Team Collapses

All of the heart failure and transplant cardiologists at Oregon Health & Science University will be gone by the end of September.

SEE UPDATE POSTED AUG. 31.

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Lynne Terry

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