St. Thomas Community Health Center is adding cardiovascular care five days a week at its New Orleans facility.
Heart & vascular services will be offered from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1936 Magazine St. New Orleans native Dr. Arthur “Chip” Grant will lead the center, which will offer diagnostic and interventional care including echocardiography, vascular ultrasound, stress testing, and ambulatory ECG monitoring.
Stacy Greene, MD, and the associate medical director of St. Thomas Community Health Center, said prevention is a crucial step towards reducing those numbers. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was approved by the FDA in 2012. The drug Truvada is aimed at adults who are at high-risk of recurring HIV exposure due to their sexual or injection behaviors. Examples include having a HIV-positive sexual partner, sharing injection equipment, having a high number of sex partners, among others.
