GreatHeartDoctors.com launches at Main Line Health

New website is resource for finding everything from doctor's profiles to heart healthy recipes

(WYNNEWOOD, PA, May 12, 2008) Now live at GreatHeartDoctors.com is an innovative website dedicated to the heart. Patients and healthcare consumers have a one-stop website to find out the latest medical information on cardiac care, technology and prevention. They also have access to the cardiologists and heart surgeons of the Main Line Health Heart Center hospitals of Bryn Mawr, Lankenau, Paoli and Riddle Memorial.

Main Line Health Heart Center is the region's largest cardiovascular program with the most robotic heart bypass surgeries performed on the East coast and more than 95 percent of heart bypass surgeries done "off-pump" compared to the national average of 20 percent. The Heart Center is also noted for its groundbreaking research in treating heart arrhythmias.

 "More and more, people are going to the internet for information. GreatHeart-Doctors.com is user-friendly and designed to help both the community and healthcare professionals find the answers they need on any aspect of heart care," said Peter R. Kowey, MD, President of the MLH Heart Center and Chief, MLH Division of Cardiovascular Diseases. "We are leaders in minimally invasive robotic heart surgery, ventricular assist devices, electrophysiology, interventional cardiology and research; this new site will help build awareness of our expertise."

Main Line Health (MLH) has distinguished itself in the Philadelphia healthcare market by using the web address of a product, GreatHeartDoctors.com, rather than its system name. The site also differentiates itself with videos of doctors discussing latest innovations in heart care and profiles of cardiologists and heart surgeons with their training and areas of interest. GreatHeartDoctors.com also features a special section on women and heart disease and offers quality and performance data on each hospital. 

The Main Line Health Heart Center is a collaborative partnership between physician specialists and the hospitals of Main Line Health. The Heart Center is nationally recognized for providing innovative, patient-oriented cardiac care and leading-edge cardiovascular research and medical education. The center is also committed to helping people identify and lower their risk of heart disease through SmartHeart, a community outreach program designed to promote a heart-healthy lifestyle.

Contact: Frieda Schmidt, 610-526-8298

Published:5-14-2008