Healthy Heart Center
The Healthy Heart Center at Deaconess provides comprehensive services for people who experience cardiac illness. Our staff is extensively trained and experienced in the care of a broad range of cardiac needs, such as:
- Heart Attack
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Stroke
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Cardiac Dysrhythmias
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
We offer diagnostic services such as Echocardiography and 12-Lead EKGs, and interventional services such as Cardioversion. We also provide specialized post-procedure care for an array of vascular interventions:
- Coronary Arteriogram
- Coronary Angioplasty
- Carotid Endarterectomy
- Femoral-Popliteal Bypass
- Permanent Pacemaker placement
We offer a total of 40 private rooms on the two floors in the Healthy Heart Center. The center offers multiple levels of cardiac and respiratory monitoring, and a nurse-to-patient ratio that is among the best in the area. Our nursing staff is known for their attentive, compassionate care.
Chest Pain Center
The Chest Pain Center at Deaconess Hospital focuses on the rapid identification and diagnosis of heart attacks. Rapid response can mean the difference between permanent heart muscle damage and complete recovery. Our skilled cardiac team is on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Heart attacks are the leading cause of death in th United States, with 600,000 dying annually of heart disease. More that five million Americans visit hospitals each year with chest pain. The goal of the Society of Chest Pain Centers is to significantly reduce the mortality rate of these patients by teaching the public to recognize and ract to the early wymptoms of a possible heart attack, reduce the time that it takes to receive treatment, and increase the accuracy and effectiveness of treatment.
The Chest Pain Center's protocol driven and systematic approach to patient management allows physicians to reduce time to treatment during the critical early stages of a heart attack, when treatments are most effective, and to better monitor patients when it is not clear whether they are having a coronary event. Such observation helps ensure that a patient is neither sent home too early nor needlessly admitted.
With the rise of Chest Pain Centers came the need to establish standards designed to improve the consistency and quality of care provided to patients. The Society's accreditation process insures centers meet or exceed quality-of-care measures in acute cardiac medicine.
The Chest Pain Center at Deaconess Hospital has demonstrated its expertise and commitment to quality patient care by meeting or exceeding a wide set of stringent criteria and completing on-site evaluations by a review team from the Society of Chest Pain Centers. Key areas in which a Chest Pain Center must Demonstrate experise include:
- Integrating the emergency department with the local emergency medical system
- Assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients quickly
- Effectively treating patients with low risk for acute coronary syndrome and no assignable cause for their symptoms
- Continually seeking to improve processes and procedures
- Ensuring Chest Pain Center personnel competency and training
- Maintaining organizational structure and commitment
- Having a functional design that promotes optmal patient care
- Supporting community outreach programs that educate the public to promptly seek medical care if they display symptoms of a posssible heart attack
For more information on the Society of Chest Pain Centers visit www.scpcp.org
Interventional Cardiology
Our Angiography Lab provides top quality vascular imaging and coronary angiography, including balloon angioplasty and stent placement. Deaconess Hospital was the first hospital in the state to offer an all-digital networked cardiac and vascular-imaging lab. This technology provides physicians with the highest quality medical images, increasing efficiency and providing premium diagnostic and interventional cardiac care. The digital cardiac imaging and vascular X-ray systems offer consistently high image quality and exclusive sensor technology that allows the equipment stand to move quickly and precisely. Combined, these improvements result in shorter procedure times and larger storage capacity for patient files on-line.
Critical Care
Deaconess is proud to offer the very finest in critical care services. Our critical care units are equipped with the best in monitoring technology, and are staffed by highly skilled nurses who are experienced in caring for critically ill patients. These nurses exemplify the knowledge, skills, and caring attitude for which Deaconess nurses are known and respected. Our CCU staff is uniquely equipped to care for patients with a broad scope of disease processes, including cardiac, respiratory, renal, and multi-system pathologies. We also provide post-surgical care for multiple types of thoracic and vascular surgeries, including:
- Coronary Artery Bypass Graft surgery
- Mitral and Aortic Valve Replacement surgeries
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm repair
- Thoracotomy
All CCU patients are continuously monitored for cardiac irregularities, and advanced life support equipment and medications are utilized as needed. The entire staff works as a team to provide thorough and competent care around the clock. Our main critical care unit, located on the third floor, includes 13 rooms, while the fourth floor CCU has seven.
Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Stress testing for inpatients and outpatients
- Patient education for cardiac health
- Cardiac Exercise Program