Heart Care Services
World-Class Care for the Heart
The Heart Center provides complete state-of-the-art services by some of the country's best heart specialists for heart failure, cardiac catheterization, cardiac surgery, electrophysiology, rehabilitation, the prevention of heart disease, and:
- Emergency and acute care for heart attack
- Medical transport via AirLink (helicopter and airplane)
- Electrophysiology treatment ("electrical" system of the heart)
- Children (pediatric) heart services
- Specialized physician and nursing care for heart patients
- Nuclear cardiology (noninvasive tests to evaluate heart disease using a small amount of radioactive substance)
- VCT CAT scan (heart calcium screening)
- Echocardiography heart ultrasound (in conjunction with Heart Center Cardiology)
- Open heart surgery: coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), Valve repair and replacement
- Coronary angiography stent implantation, including drug-eluting stents (a tiny metal device put into the heart to keep collapsed arteries open)
- Pacemaker and defibrillator implantation
- State-of-the-art cardiac treatment, technology, facilities and catheterization laboratories
- A regional EKG network
- Cardiac Rehabilitation