by Lee Rasizer

A group of cardiologists rallying around the prospect of eliminating heart disease certainly classifies as a unique business model. But the team at South Denver Cardiology Associates had a vision to create something unique in its field, with a core value of promoting wellness with the same fervor that it treats the ill.

The results of that outside-the-box thinking can be seen at the group’s gleaming 65,000 square-foot facility in the South Park business area of Littleton. The clinic at that location houses a team of 19 coordinated cardiac care experts along with a knowledge-able and experienced support staff that includes a psychologist, specialized registered nurses, and exercise physiologists. All are devoted to morphing both clinical care and prevention models into an inte-grated approach.

Treatment of acute problems and the exper-tise associated with care remains a pillar of the practice. Averting cardiac episodes altogether, or avoiding a recurrence by taking a whole-body approach, is as funda-mental. And when it comes right down to it, the reason that kind of synergy may work is the environment in which it’s applied.

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