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OLYMPIC MEDICAL HEART CENTER EXPANDS CARDIOLOGY SERVICES
ON THE NORTH OLYMPIC PENINSULA
Cardiologist Alexander Pan, MD, Joins Heart Team
SEQUIM (October 9, 2014) – Like most matters of the heart, sometimes it’s about finding someone who
is the right fit, and feels like family. In the case of the recently formed Olympic Medical Heart Center,
Olympic Medical searched in partnership with Swedish Heart and Vascular Institute for a cardiologist
who would complement the team as well as increase access for cardiology care in the community.
As a result of this tireless search a new partner in care has joined the Heart Center team:
Alexander Pan, MD.
“We wanted another high-caliber cardiology physician who wanted to work in a small rural
community such as ours,” says Rebecca Corley, MD, chief physician officer, Olympic Medical Physicians.
“Our collaboration with Swedish resulted in bringing a third cardiologist to the North Olympic Peninsula.
We couldn’t be happier with the addition of Dr. Pan – he is a skilled cardiologist and he has impressed us
with his patient-centric approach and positive attitude.”
Dr. Pan, a member of Swedish Heart and Vascular Institute, joined the Heart Center in
September, primarily seeing patients out of the Sequim location on the second floor of the Medical
Services Building at 840 N. 5th Ave., Ste. 2400. He works closely with other clinical cardiologists from the
OMP division, Kara Kurtz Urnes, MD, FACC, and James Emery, MD, FACC, as well as his partners with
Swedish Heart and Vascular. Tracy Zaher-Lee, ARNP, general cardiology, and Robert Gipe, MD, heart
rhythm management specialists, also work alongside him at the Heart Center.
Dr. Pan received his medical degree from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and recently
completed his cardiology fellowship training at the University of Hawaii in June 2014.
Olympic Medical Heart Center cardiologists are accepting new patients. To learn more please
call (360) 565-0500.
Your Home for All Things Heart
Olympic Medical Heart Center offers important non-invasive cardiology services for residents of
Clallam County, including consults, echocardiography, advanced heart rhythm testing using the Zio
Patch, rhythm management, pacemaker insertion and monitoring, stress testing, nuclear medicine,
education, as well as chronic heart disease management and rehabilitation. To learn more about these
services, please call the Heart Center at (360) 565-0500.
As a community hospital in a rural setting, Olympic Medical does not have the volume to
support the most complex surgical heart procedures, such as bypasses and stents. That’s where Olympic
Medical’s partnership with Swedish Medical Center affords our community extra benefit.
“Our connection to Swedish’s team of nationally renowned cardiologists and cardiac surgeons
allows us to fill in the gaps in invasive cardiology services,” says Scott Kennedy, MD, Chief Medical
Officer, Olympic Medical Center. Our patients benefit from having direct access to the vast array of
highly specialized procedures that only a place like Swedish can offer.”
Consumer Reports magazine recently ranked the Swedish Heart and Vascular Institute among
the top 15 hospitals in the nation for outcomes in coronary bypass and aortic valve replacement. For
more information Swedish Heart and Vascular Institute please go to www.swedish.org/services/heartvascular-institute.
Olympic Medical Center (Clallam County Public Hospital District No. 2) is a comprehensive,
award-winning health care provider for more than 70,000 residents of Clallam County. It has served the
community since its establishment on Nov. 1, 1951, and is governed by a seven-member, publicly
elected board. Olympic Medical is a sole community hospital and rural referral center, and a charter
member of both the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (2003) and the Swedish Health Network (2011).
Olympic Medical provides inpatient services at its 80-bed acute-care facility in Port Angeles, including a
level-three trauma designated emergency department, surgical services, and labor and delivery. OMC’s
outpatient services include cardiac, imaging, physical therapy and rehabilitation, laboratory, sleep
medicine, surgical services, home health, physician clinics and comprehensive regional cancer care at
locations in Port Angeles and Sequim.