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Bellevue hospital gets first-of-a-kind accreditation to treat heart condition on the West Coast

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Last week, Overlake Medical Center’s arrhythmia center was the first center of its kind on the West Coast to be accredited to treat atrial fibrillation — or AFib. The Bellevue-based hospital treats almost 10,000 patients a year in its arrhythmia center and, while AFib accreditation is not necessary to operate, the hospital went through the year-long process so it could say it gives best-in-class care for the condition. AFib, an irregular heart beat that hospitalizes more than 750,000 people…

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