HealthEast Heart Care

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St. Joseph’s named top heart hospital

Modern Healthcare has named St. Joseph's Hospital one of the "100 Top Hospitals for Cardiac Care" for 2008. Of the nearly 1,000 hospitals evaulated, these 100 hospitals did significantly better than their peers on measures of mortality and complications in heart care. Read the article at ModernHealthcare.com.

About Heart Care

We believe the best results for patients come from experienced doctors and staff, proven procedures and new technology. We offer a whole range of treatments and services for heart disease and cardiac wellness. Our goal is to restore you to the highest quality of life possible, as soon as possible.
Within HealthEast Care System, St. Joseph's Hospital is the center for the Cardiac Catheterization Lab and open heart surgery.

Superior professional team care

Before and after your diagnosis, you may need to consult several types of specialty doctors. These may include surgical specialists, interventional cardiologists and radiologists, electro-physiologists and cardiologists. At St. Joseph's, these specialists work together to provide you with comprehensive treatment.

By viewing heart disease as a group of symptoms rather than a specific disease, Heart Care doctors create treatment plans to help you manage your disease. Nurses, technicians, rehabilitation therapists, chaplains, dietitians and social workers work with you and your family on diet, exercise, rehabilitation and counseling.

Your needs continue beyond our technology and state-of-the-art treatment. Throughout St. Joseph's, you'll find people with a passion for providing the physical, spiritual and educational support you expect and deserve.

Full-spectrum heart care services

Prevention
Wellness
Emergency care
Diagnostic testing
Non-surgical treatments
Open heart surgery
Rehabilitation
Home Care

We also offer:

Cardiac Special Care Unit: An outpatient care unit for patients undergoing angiogram and angioplasty.

Cardiovascular Telemetry Unit: An acute-care unit with 24-hour heart monitoring and specialized nursing care.

Heart Catheterization Lab: A unit for performing heart catheterizations, coronary interventions and pacemaker insertions.

Chest Pain Evaluation Clinic: An outpatient program designed to quickly determine if your chest pain is caused by the heart. You are evaluated in the Emergency Care Center to determine if you are having a heart attack. You are then transferred to a cardiac monitoring area where a series of tests will be given. The evaluation takes less than 24 hours and provides early diagnosis of heart injury.

Congestive Heart Failure Clinic: Using an infusion of intravenous (IV) drugs, the Congestive Heart Failure Clinic treats symptoms associated with end-stage heart failure.

Electrophysiology Lab: Electrophysiology (EP) studies are used to test and modify the electrical functioning of the heart. These tests are conducted in our state-of-the-art EP lab and give doctors answers to questions about irregular heartbeats, fainting spells and much more. Technology often allows electrophysiologists to correct an irregular heartbeat right in the lab.

Emergency Care Center : When you arrive in the Emergency Care Center at St. Joseph 's Hospital with a heart condition, a specially-trained RN will see you right away.

If you are having chest pain, we will perform an EKG within minutes to see if you are having a heart attack. If you are having a heart attack, your doctor will admit you to have primary angioplasty. This opens up the blocked artery in your heart that is causing the heart attack. If your chest pain is not caused by a heart attack, your doctor will admit you for observation to find out its cause.
If you come to the Emergency Care Center with difficulty breathing, the nurses and doctors will work with you right away to make your breathing easier. They will then determine if the cause of the breathing problem is related to your heart or lungs.

Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit: A unit where nursing staff have received advanced training to care for patients who are critically ill and have experienced a heart attack, heart failure or heart surgery.

HealthEast Quality Institute

HealthEast created the Quality Institute as a way to ensure we are accountable and responsible for providing high quality care to our patients and the community.

Find out how HealthEast and our hospitals score. See our quality measures to find out how we care for people with: