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Cardiology
How important is cardiac care at St. Tammany Health System? Well, let’s just say there’s a reason our logo is built around the image of a heart.
What’s more, our multi-disciplinary team of experts -- operating out of locations in both Covington and Mandeville -- live up to that promise every day, providing Northshore residents with comprehensive, compassionate and technologically advanced cardiac care close to home.
That includes stress tests and other noninvasive diagnostic procedures; our groundbreaking, minimally invasive TAVR heart valve replacement; a litany of traditional interventional cardiac procedures; and follow-up and rehabilitation care designed to get you back on your feet and living your best life.
All that, combined with our Covington hospital’s status as an Accredited Chest Pain Center, means that when it comes to heart health on the Northshore, you couldn’t be in better, more capable hands.
When Covington native Richard Hodgson had the chance to make history, he took it by becoming St. Tammany Health System's first TAVR patient.
Learn more in this video and at StTammany.health/TAVR.
A closer look at some of STHS’s related cardiac services:
Located on our main hospital campus in Covington, our Cardiac Cath Lab provides patients with a suite of diagnostic and treatment services, including stent and pacemaker placement, angioplasty, angiography, cardiac catheterization, ablation and more. Patients recover on-site until they are discharged, in most cases later that same day.
Operating out of STHS’s Paul D. Cordes Outpatient Pavilion in Covington, our Cardio Rehab facility hosts a multi-phased program designed, first, to get patients back on their feet. That’s followed by a blend of education and exercise in our on-site facility and, if necessary, enrollment in our Living Tobacco Free smoking cessation program.
St. Tammany Health System’s Coumadin Clinic, located at the Paul D. Cordes Outpatient Pavilion in Covington, facilitates management of the anticoagulant warfarin – also known by the name brand Coumadin – which is prescribed for medical conditions such as heart rhythm disturbances, strokes, heart valve replacements or blood clotting disorders.
Georges Antoun, MD
Specialty: Cardiology
Joined STPN in: 2017
George Isa, MD
Joined STPN in: 2022
Bekir Melek, MD
Joined STPN in: 2013
Russell Reed, MD
Joined STPN in: 2018
Stefan Sicinschi, MD
Paul Stahls, MD
Sarah Bourgeois, MSN, APRN, FNP-C
Nurse Practitioner
Molly Peck, APRN
Joined STPN in: 2023
Mary Scheyd, APRN
Nicole Sesser, APRN
Joined STPN in: 2014
St. Tammany Health System's cardiology and heart care programs have earned recognition from groups including:
