Vascular Services of Western New England, PC is one of the largest vascular surgery practices in the northeastern United States. Our goal is to provide the best state-of-the-art vascular surgery care to our patients.

The typical clinical problems we treat include:

We pride ourselves on being complete physicians, caring for all of the diseases that involve the circulation. We work closely with our referring physicians to provide consultation on the risk factors for developing vascular disease, such as cholesterol elevation, high blood pressure, smoking, and diabetes.

Our physicians and nurse practitioner provide the usual consultative services expected of any specialist office. We are not primary-care physicians, but we work closely with all internal medicine and primary care practices in our region.

Typed consultation reports are sent to your referring physician for the first visit, and periodic reports are sent so your physician can understand your care. Should you require an intervention or surgery, your primary care physician will be notified. We gladly share our records with any other physicians participating in your care. We never charge fees to send records to other providers of medical care for you.

We have two office registered nurses who assist in the coordination of laboratory studies and medications you may require, and they also work with you in the transition from hospital care to home.

Our office has medical assistants to work with the physicians and nurse practitioner to teach you dressing care and to assist with procedures. Our medical assistants are very experienced at wound care, and they are excellent in answering your questions. They also help you obtain prescriptions for medications and dressings.

The first noninvasive vascular laboratory in our region was founded by the senior staff of Vascular Services of Western New England. The laboratory is fully-credentialed by the Intersocietal Committee for Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories.

Our nurses and technicians are well-versed in examining the major clinical problems of vascular disease, including aneurysms, carotid disease, blocked peripheral arteries, venous disease, and diseases involving the intestines.

The primary study we do is an ultrasound examination of the circulation, usually called a duplex scan. In addition, we study peripheral arteries using “pulse volume recording,” a procedure based on measurements with blood pressure cuffs. We study venous volume in legs with a slightly different blood pressure cuff measurement, called plethysmography. We evaluate the changes in muscle bundle pressure for people with certain types of leg pain caused by exercise.

We maintain admitting privileges at…

Another physician from our staff is a medical director for the Wound Care Center at Mercy Medical Center one day per week. That physician occasionally performs consultations at the Weldon Center for Rehabilitation on the Mercy campus.

We are sorry, but we cannot provide consultative services at other hospitals in the region. We do not provide rounding care (post-hospital visits) at the skilled nursing facilities in our region.

Consultative Care: Office and hospital consultations for vascular problems are the commonest activity we do as physicians.

Surgery: Historically, most serious vascular problems were found to be blockages from atherosclerosis, and these were treated with a variety of techniques…

Medical records:
Please try to have your primary physician send your last year’s worth of records to us in preparation of your visit.

Medications:
For each visit, please bring an accurate list of your medications or bring the actual bottles.

X-rays:
If you have had imaging studies, x-rays, ultrasound, MRI from anywhere, please arrange to bring those films for your visit.