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The McLaren system includes 14 hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 490-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 620,000 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health and hospice providers, retail medical equipment showrooms, pharmacy services, and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company.
McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, one of only 49 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the U.S. McLaren has 26,000 employees and more than 85,500 network providers. Its operations are housed in more than 350 facilities serving Michigan and Indiana.
A Cardiac Ablation is a procedure where catheters are placed in the heart and radio frequency (RF) energy is delivered through the catheter to abnormal heart tissue that is causing an irregular heartbeat. This neutralizes (ablates) the cardiac cells that are causing an arrhythmia, an abnormal heart rhythm, by creating a block that the electrical impulses can no longer cross.
The treatment is used on abnormal heart tissue, sometimes referred to as 'hot spots', both in the atria or in the pulmonary veins. This restores the normal electrical pathways of your heart and allows it to beat normally again. The procedure is performed by a cardiac specialist called an Electrophysiologist. It is a widely used procedure, proven safe, effective, and long-lasting, although some arrhythmias are more easily treated with catheter ablation than others.