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WHAT'S NEW AT AREA HOSPITALS Affinity Medical Center's Cardiac Rehabilitation Department offers individuals with heart disease free support group meetings. Topics covered include stress management, smoking cessation, medica - tions, blood pressure, weight management, risk factors, sexuality, heart healthy diet, recipe modification, dining out, equipment, exercise, lipids (cholesterol and Triglycerides) and more. Akron Children's Hospital has signed an agreement with Wooster Community Hospital (WCH) to operate and staff a Level II special care nursery in the Women's Pavilion located on the ground floor of WCH. Akron Children's now has a continuum of prenatal-to-pediat - ric services in Wayne and surrounding counties, beginning with the hospital's Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialists who care for women with high-risk pregnancies at the Subspecialty Physician Center adjacent to the WCH Main Campus. Since 2000, Akron Children's has also been offering primary care services for infants, babies and teens at the WCH Milltown Professional Building in Wooster. This pediatrician office is one of 23 Akron Children's Hospital Pediatrics locations in the region. Akron General Health System is reportedly the first in the Akron/Canton area to open a "hybrid" operating room (OR). The hybrid OR accommodates both surgical and endovascular procedures, which can sometimes be performed at the same time, thus reducing patient OR time. It also allows for real-time images to be integrated with pre-surgical CT scans while at the operating table. Alliance Community Hospital recently partnered with Aultman Heart Center to provide comprehensive heart care in the Alliance community. This new partnership combines Cardiovascular Consultants, a cardiology group of 18 board-certified cardiolo - gists, with the Aultman Heart Center. Patients and physicians will continue to have choices as they make referral decisions based on what is best for the patients' needs and care. Aultman Hospital earned a Spring 2014 Hospital Safety Score of "A." Designed to rate how well hospitals protect patients from accidents, errors, injuries and infections, the Hospital Safety Score ++++++++++++++++++++++++ + +++ + +++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++ HOSPITAL ROUNDS 4 2 | Cleveland/Akron/Canton MD NEWS ■ M D N E W S . CO M ■ J U LY/AU G U S T 2 0 1 4