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Heart Failure Clinic

  • Category: East Jefferson General Hospital
  • Location Type: Specialty Care

About this Location

Welcome to the Heart Failure Clinic at East Jefferson General Hospital

The Heart Failure Clinic at East Jefferson General Hospital answers a need within our community for heart failure patients to have ready access to testing, evaluation and clinical support, including follow-up appointments after hospital admission or visit to the emergency department, and ongoing medical management.

Your care will be coordinated between the following:

  • Cardiologists
  • Electrophysiologists
  • Dieticians
  • Cardiac Rehab Specialists
  • Clinical Pharmacists
  • Supportive Care
  • EJGH Heart Failure Team
  • Heart Failure Program Coordinator
  • Access to Care

The Heart Failure Clinic is dedicated to providing easy referral of heart failure patients for follow-up and/or continued heart failure management within 72 hours of hospital discharge and within 24-48 hours of discharge from an Emergency Department.

Services and treatments:

  • Patient evaluation
  • Patient follow-up
  • Medication titration
  • Monitoring of symptoms
  • Enhanced self-management
  • Education
  • Clinic follow-up communications with referring physician
  • Improved access to advanced heart failure therapies
  • An Interdisciplinary Approach