BryanLGH Medical Center announced in November the formation of the BryanLGH Heart Institute, a new entity that is a joint venture between the Medical Center and Midwest Cardiovascular Associates LLC.  BryanLGH Heart Institute will offer a complete range of cardiac services in Lincoln and throughout the region.

One of the cardiologists associated with the new BryanLGH Heart Institute, Steven K. Krueger, M.D., will see patients at Community Hospital every Tuesday.

Dr. Krueger attended the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and completed an internship and residency at the Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, California.  Dr. Krueger completed fellowships in cardiology, electrophysiology and congestive heart failure at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.  He is board certified in cardiology.  He practiced internal medicine for seven years in Missouri before moving to Lincoln seven years ago to begin practice as a cardiology.  Dr. Krueger is the medical director of the BryanLGH Hear Improvement Program, serving patients with congestive heart failure.  He was born in Kearney and graduated from Lincoln Northeast High School.

The practice includes cardiologists Dale Hansen, Chris Caudill, M.D., Steve Krueger, M.D., and Clyde Meckel, M.D., who have practiced in Lincoln for many years, Scott Coatsworth, M.D., and Robert (Robin) Hibbard, M.D., of Omaha and Andrew (Andy) Merliss, M.D., of Fargo, N.D., and surgeons Bruce Jones, M.D., of Abilene, Texas, Roxanne Newman, M.D. of Fargo, N.D., and long-time Lincoln physician Ed Raines, M.D.  Other physicians are being recruited regionally and nationally.

Drs. Caudill, Hansen, Krueger, Meckel and Raines have opened offices in Lincoln; the other physicians will begin seeing patients after January 2, 2002.

“We share a common goal of striving to provide high-quality care in a leading-edge clinical environment,” notes Dr. Hansen, president of the Midwest Cardiovascular Associates.  “Forming the new Institute ensures that the level of cardiac services that people have come to expect from BryanLGH will be available well into the future.”

BryanLGH Medical Center is among only 20 hospitals to be named to the l00 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success list for three consecutive years.  This national recognition is based on excellence in care, efficiency of operations and sustained cardiovascular performance.