Heart Failure Care
Wellstar's heart failure services are comprehensive and cohesive, involving many types of specialists in addition to cardiologists who are board-certified in cardiovascular medicine.
Expert Care for People with Heart Failure
Heart failure is a long-term chronic condition that that occurs when your heart can’t pump blood well enough to meet all of your body’s needs. With the proper treatment and partnership with heart failure experts, people can feel better and live longer.
Board-certified cardiologists collaborate with various specialists to help adults manage heart failure with the right balance of medicine, positive lifestyle choices and monitoring. When someone has advanced heart failure, Wellstar offers specialized expertise and leading-edge interventions, such as left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation.
Board-certified cardiologists collaborate with various specialists to help adults manage heart failure with the right balance of medicine, positive lifestyle choices and monitoring. When someone has advanced heart failure, Wellstar offers specialized expertise and leading-edge interventions, such as left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation.
Clinical trials
The Wellstar Research Institute works closely with our team and select national partners to offer cardiac clinical trials. We participate in more than 20 cardiac-related clinical research studies at a given time, giving our patients access to advanced treatments close to home. For more information about clinical trials, please talk with your Wellstar physician.
Treatments for heart failure
Our heart failure experts offer a range of treatments and services to reduce your symptoms and improve your quality of life, including:
- CardioMEMS HF System
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)
- HeartLogicTM remote heart failure monitoring system
- Barostim
- Heart Failure Home Health Program
- Palliative care
- Medication therapy
- Heart failure clinics
- Clinical Trials
- Advanced heart failure care for patients whose heart failure condition has progressed
Improve your quality of life
People with heart failure can have the energy they need to feel good and enjoy life. Our multidisciplinary heart failure teams offer people comprehensive support to manage their condition and limit visits to the hospital. A person’s team may include a cardiologist, advanced practice provider, nurse, social worker, pharmacist, or others. Learn more about Wellstar’s heart failure clinics.Heart Failure Locations
Appointments may require a physician referral.
Do I need a referral to see a cardiologist?
No referral is needed to make an appointment.