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The Heart Failure Prevention and Treatment Program provides comprehensive care to patients in all stages of heart failure, from prevention to advanced disease. We are focused on providing the most currently available heart failure treatments consistent with national guidelines. And, we are also devoted to raising awareness within the general and medical communities about optimal heart failure management. 
Certification
Intermountain Medical Center now has disease-specific certification by the Joint Commission in Advanced Heart Failure. (July 2011).
Coordination of Advanced Heart Failure Therapies
The Heart Failure Prevention and Treatment Program plays a key role in coordinating the advanced heart failure therapies at Intermountain Medical Center, including heart transplant, artificial heart and ventricular assist device technologies. Our heart failure specialists are part of a larger team that can provide and manage these therapies with impressive outcomes.
Longstanding Participation in Clinical Research
Our continuing participation in clinical trials allows us to offer the most advanced treatments and increase options for heart failure patients. Our current clinical trials cover different types of heart failure including systolic (“pumping”) and diastolic (“filling”). The program sees in excess of 5,000 outpatients with advanced heart failure every year. This high volume has allowed us to develop robust data tracking systems that monitor patient outcomes and study the effectiveness of our heart failure treatments.
Implementing Best-Practice in Heart Failure Care
The success and foundation of our program is centered on establishing and implementing “best-practice” guidelines in the hospital and in the community. This approach has increased survival rates, decreased hospital admissions, and made improvements in quality of life for heart failure patients.
An Extensive Team that sees Patients In and Out of the Hospital
The care of heart failure patients is growing in complexity and requires a variety of experts. Our program is staffed by medical professionals knowledgeable in determining the appropriate timing of various heart failure treatments. The following list of team members work closely together manage your care:
- Heart failure and heart transplant cardiologists
- Cardiovascular critical care physicians
- Cardiothoracic surgeons
- Cardiovascular anesthesia
- Interventional and electrophysiology cardiologists
- Cardiac transplant pathologists
- Nurse practitioners and physician assistants
- Clinical nurse coordinators
- Nurse care managers
- Cardiovascular researchers
- Social worker
- Pharmacists
- Dietician
- Financial counselor
- Palliative care specialists
- Hospital administration support
The same team that cares for you in the hospital will follow up with you in the outpatient setting. All team members (from nurses to pharmacists to physicians) rotate their time caring for patients in both the clinic and hospital setting. The entire team meets weekly to discuss all patients seen during the week in the clinic and in hospital. The care you receive in and out of the hospital is consistent and complimentary.
Frequent Team Meetings Promote Constant Improvement
We strive to provide the best care and outcomes to our heart failure patients. We feel our process and frequent team meetings provide a venue for constantly making improvements in our processes, which benefit our patients and contribute to successful outcomes.
Clinics affiliated with the Heart Failure Prevention & Treatment Program