Pulmonary Medicine

Pulmonary Medicine at St. Elizabeth's

Our team is dedicated to improving your quality of life. Our program provides treatment for:

• Advanced Obstructive Lung Disease
• Interstitial Lung Disease    
• Occupational Lung Disease
• Pulmonary Hypertension
• Thoracic Cancers
• Pleural Diseases

In addition, our physicians offer programs in:

• Critical Care/Respiratory Intensive Care
• General Pulmonary Medicine
• Interventional Pulmonology
• Respiratory Therapy and Pulmonary Function Testing
• Sleep Medicine

Lung Cancer Screening Program

St. Elizabeth’s lung cancer screening program, managed in conjunction with the Department of Radiology, is one of only a few local hospitals to offer patients lowest-dose CT scans in the region.

Bronchial Thermoplasty

For severe persistent asthma patients, 18 years and older, whose asthma is still not well controlled despite the use of daily medications, we offer Bronchial Thermoplasty, which is an outpatient procedure that has been clinically shown to improve asthma quality of life and the following benefits:

• Reduction in asthma attacks
• Reduction in emergency room visits for respiratory symptoms
• Reduction in hospitalizations for respiratory symptoms
• Reduction in days lost from work/school/other activities due to asthma