Unknown to most people in Louisiana, Charity hospital is equipped with a heart station that medical men acclaim as the equal of the best in the world.
The facility has been developed during the past two years. Dr. Robert Bernhard, Charity hospital director, said Saturday that the station accepts all patients for diagnosis of heart diseases.
Specialists who discussed the facility said there is no need for patients to go to other sections of the country for either diagnosis or treatment.
And Dr. Bernhard added that the people of New Orleans and Louisiana should know that "we have an outstanding diagnostic center for heart diseases and that frequently at Charity and in other hospitals here surgeons have successfully carried out operations" to correct congenital heart defects. PHOTO CAPTION READS: DEVELOPED WITHIN PAST TWO YEARS, heart station at Charity hospital is termed an "outstanding diagnostic center." Dr. louis Levy II (left) stands by to do fluoroscopy on patient. Acting as patient, heart station technician Lawrence Ashman lies flat while Dr. Harold Chastant (right) shows how a catheter is injected into the arm of a patient. The catheter passes through the heart into the lungs, to enable the doctor to withdraw blood for tests in heart disease cases.
