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Tyler heart specialists expand services with Palestine branch
PALESTINE — For over 25 years, Tyler Cardiovascular Consultants, P.A. has provided the full gamut of cardiovascular services to East Texas patients. And with the recent opening of a new branch office in Palestine, the conglomerate of 14 physicians hopes to bring those services even closer to home.
The new TCC office, open on Mondays and Thursdays each week, is located at 4002 S. Loop 256 in Suite K next to Palestine Regional Rehabilitation Hospital. Five physicians from TCC began seeing patients in August.
“We decided to come to Palestine as part of a mutual agreement we made with Palestine Regional Medical Center,” Dr. Thaddeus “Tad” Tolleson, of the clinic’s rotating physicians, said in a recent interview.
“The illness, and later passing, of Dr. James Wilkerson left the community without someone qualified to do catheterizations in the hospital’s cath lab,” Tolleson explained. “Our being here allows us to provide that service to patients once again, to keep them from having to travel to Tyler.”
Tolleson reported that TCC already had many patients in Palestine, who are referred by local doctors. The group felt it would be beneficial to all involved to locate in the area.
“It will be much more convenient to have five doctors travel to Palestine to see 30 patients, than to have 30 patients travel to Tyler to see us,” the doctor said. “We want to do everything here that can be done — we want to keep it local.”
Doctors with TCC treat every condition relating to cardiology, including coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, hypertension, peripheral vascular disease and more. Visiting physicians spend their mornings at PRMC doing heart caths and the afternoons seeing patients.
“We are staying busy, seeing 15 to 20 patients a day, and because we are here, we are able to do consultations with PRMC physicians,” Tolleson said. “If demand is high enough, we would eventually open up to five days a week.”
TCC is one of the oldest cardiology groups in East Texas, having been in existence for 25 years. There are 14 doctors and the group employs 150 total employees, including physicians, physician’s assistants, nurses, lab techs and others.
“Our main goal in being in Palestine is to support the hospital, community care physicians and local patients in all aspects of cardiac care,” he added. “We want the community to know that we have been around awhile, and we are not going anywhere.”
For more information or to make an appointment, call 903-595-5514 or 1-800-543-2783 or visit www.tylercvc.com.
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Mary Rainwater may be reached via e-mail at mrainwater@palestineherald.com
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