U.S. Heart & Vascular Announces Georgia Expansion with Two Leading Cardiology Practices

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 2, 2026--

US Heart and Vascular, a national provider of support services to independent cardiovascular physician practices, has partnered with Cardiovascular Clinic of North Georgia and Cardiology of Atlanta, two respected cardiovascular practices serving patients throughout Metro Atlanta and Northeast Georgia.

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These partnerships unite leading cardiovascular specialists with a growing network of independent cardiovascular practices committed to expanding patient access, improving outcomes, and advancing innovation in heart and vascular care. Through the partnership, physicians and patients will benefit from broader access to advanced cardiovascular diagnostics, including cardiac positron emission tomography/computed tomography imaging, value-based care programs, clinical research opportunities, and collaborative best practices from across the US Heart and Vascular network.

“This partnership with US Heart and Vascular will provide tremendous resources to support and expand access to innovative cardiac care, high-quality imaging, and clinical research for the patients in the Atlanta metropolitan area and Northeast Georgia,” said Dr. Salman Ashfaq, managing partner and cardiologist at Cardiovascular Clinic of North Georgia. “Our mission has always been to deliver exceptional cardiovascular care close to home while continuing to advance innovation and patient access. Joining the US Heart and Vascular network allows us to strengthen that mission while preserving the personalized physician-led approach our patients value.”

“Cardiology of Atlanta’s partnership with US Heart and Vascular reflects our mutual commitment to providing advanced, innovative, top quality cardiovascular care to the Atlanta area and surrounding communities,” said Dr. Hector Malave and Dr. Matthew Wilson of Cardiology of Atlanta. “We are confident this collaboration will strengthen our ability to elevate the cardiovascular services we offer to an even higher level through adoption of the latest technology and services, and recruitment of top talent. By combining Cardiology of Atlanta’s unique patient-centered and personalized model of care with the resources of a larger organization, we seek to provide our patients with the best of both worlds, to manage their cardiovascular health and improve outcomes.”

“Cardiovascular Clinic of North Georgia and Cardiology of Atlanta have built outstanding reputations by putting patients first and delivering exceptional cardiovascular care in their communities,” said Robbie Allen, Chief Executive Officer of US Heart and Vascular. “Their commitment to clinical excellence, innovation, and physician leadership aligns closely with our mission of supporting patient-centered, physician-led cardiovascular practices. Together, we will expand access to advanced heart and vascular care, strengthen opportunities for clinical collaboration and research, and help more patients benefit from innovative diagnostics, value-based care programs, and leading-edge treatment options throughout Georgia.”

Provident Healthcare Partners, a leading healthcare investment banking firm, advised Cardiovascular Clinic of North Georgia in its partnership with US Heart and Vascular.

AboutCardiovascular Clinic of North Georgia

Cardiovascular Clinic of North Georgia is a leading cardiovascular practice serving patients throughout Northeast Georgia and the greater Atlanta region. The practice provides comprehensive cardiovascular services including preventive cardiology, interventional cardiology, vascular medicine, advanced cardiac imaging, nuclear cardiology, cardiac PET/CT, echocardiography, peripheral vascular diagnostics, and comprehensive outpatient cardiovascular management.

AboutCardiology of Atlanta

Cardiology of Atlanta is dedicated to delivering the highest quality of care to their patients in a service-oriented environment. Led by Drs. Hector Malave and Matthew Wilson, Cardiology of Atlanta prioritizes prevention of future health risks, creating a compassionate partnership with each patient to achieve healthcare goals through a combination of clinical and technical excellence, open communication and education about cardiac disease.

AboutUS Heart & Vascular

US Heart & Vascular is the nation's premier support organization for independent cardiovascular practices. Through patient-centered, physician-led partnerships, US Heart & Vascular provides operational, administrative, technology, growth, and strategic support that enables physicians to remain focused on delivering exceptional heart and vascular care in the communities they serve. The organization supports advanced cardiovascular diagnostics, value-based care initiatives, clinical research programs, and innovative care models designed to improve outcomes for patients across the country. Visit us at usheartandvascular.com.

AboutProvident Healthcare Partners

Provident is a leading healthcare investment banking firm specializing in merger and acquisition advisory, strategic planning, and capital formation services for healthcare companies. The firm has a comprehensive knowledge of market sectors and specialties, including cardiology services. Provident also has unsurpassed experience and insight into the M&A process, which includes working with a multitude of investors such as private equity firms and strategic consolidators. For additional information, visit www.providenthp.com.

USHV Partners with Cardiovascular Clinic of North Georgia and Cardiology of Atlanta to broaden access to advanced heart and vascular care throughout Metro Atlanta and Northeast Georgia.

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Keir Starmer formally apologized Thursday for the British state's role in separating tens of thousands of unmarried mothers from their babies, a practice that lasted for decades until the 1970s.

He said in Parliament that “we are deeply and profoundly sorry” for what he called a “stain on our history.”

An estimated 185,000 babies of unmarried mothers were adopted in England and Wales between 1949 and 1976. Campaigners have fought for years for acknowledgment that women were pressured, deceived and threatened into giving up their babies.

Starmer, who is the final weeks of his premiership, said women were “coerced, bullied or misled into feeling that they had no choice but to have their children taken away from them.”

“Children grew up believing they were unwanted” and mothers were told “their babies would be better off without them,” he said.

“To every one of those affected we say a deep and heartfelt sorry,” Starmer said.

Britain is one of several countries reckoning with the legacy of social norms, religious practices and government policies that heaped shame on unwed mothers, hid them away in institutions while pregnant and took their children to be adopted by married couples.

Ann Keen, a former U.K. health minister whose baby was taken for adoption in 1966 when she was 17, said she was looking forward to “being released from my shame.”

“We need this apology, because we have always been accused of giving up our babies, and we didn’t give them up,” she told the BBC. “We’ve now got the opportunity to really put this wrong right.”

In 2022, Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights said the British state should apologize for “the pain and suffering caused by public institutions and state employees that railroaded mothers into unwanted adoptions.”

The semiautonomous governments in Scotland and Wales issued apologies the following year, but the Conservative U.K. government at the time declined to follow suit.

The apology from Starmer’s Labour Party government comes two weeks after the Church of England said sorry for its role in forced adoptions.

Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally said that “we are profoundly sorry for the pain, trauma and stigma experienced — and still carried — by many people because of historical adoption practices in homes affiliated to the Church of England.”

Other countries have been facing up to a similar history.

In 2013, Australia’s then-Prime minister, Julia Gillard, delivered a landmark national apology for the country’s history of forced adoptions and the “lifelong legacy of pain and suffering” it had caused.

Ireland has been reckoning with the legacy of mother-and-baby homes run by the Catholic Church, in which tens of thousands of women were housed in often degrading conditions. An inquiry found in 2021 that 9,000 children had died in 18 mother-and-baby homes during the 20th century.

Prime Minister Micheál Martin apologized for the “profound and generational wrong” visited upon mothers and their babies who ended up in the institutions.

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to the media outside 10 Downing Street to announce his resignation in London, Monday, June 22, 2026.(AP Photo/Thomas Krych)