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 and most types of cardiomyopathy 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 and most types of cardiomyopathy 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.Certifications & recognitions
Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center is the first in Georgia and the fourth in the nation to receive the highest certification in cardiovascular care—the Comprehensive Cardiac Care Center Certification—by The Joint Commission and American Heart Association.
As a Center of Excellence designated by the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association, Wellstar is one of the leading locations offering comprehensive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy care in metro Atlanta.
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:- Advanced heart failure care for patients whose heart failure condition has progressed
- Barostim
- CardioMEMS HF System
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)
- Clinical trials
- Heart failure clinics
- Heart failure home health program
- HeartLogicTM remote heart failure monitoring system
- Medication therapy
- Palliative care
- Optimizer Smart Mini
- Support groups
Support group
Our Turning Heart Failure into Heart Function Support Group is for patients with heart failure and their families and personal support team members. Learn from Wellstar’s heart failure team and connect with your peers. Each session will cover new topics like nutrition and medication.This in-person group meets monthly, rotating between select Wellstar medical center locations. New locations coming soon. To learn more about the time and location of our next meeting register by email or call (770) 956-STAR (7827).