Heart Failure Care
Heart failure is a complex disease that can have many causes. Getting an accurate diagnosis is an essential first step toward effective heart failure treatment. The Hoffman Heart and Vascular Institute uses the latest diagnostic technology to evaluate the underlying cause of heart failure. This allows us to create customized care plans to help you manage all stages of heart failure.
Managing Heart Failure: Why The Hoffman Heart and Vascular Institute?
We are at the forefront of heart failure care, both regionally and nationally. Our comprehensive approach to care helps you and your family navigate the full spectrum of heart failure treatment. We’re constantly striving to surpass expectations in the following areas:
- National recognition: Our heart failure clinic at consistently receives the Get With The Guidelines® - Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association®. This award recognizes our adherence to the highest quality standards that effectively reduce hospital readmissions.
- Focused care: The Hoffman Heart and Vascular Institute offers the only dedicated inpatient heart failure program in Connecticut. This means you receive highly specialized treatment and support from providers focused entirely on heart failure.
- Compassionate support: We know that heart failure affects every aspect of your life. That’s why we provide education, emotional support groups and home health coordination to help you and your family navigate this chronic condition.
Heart Failure Treatment Options
The Hoffman Heart and Vascular Institute is home to the first dedicated inpatient/outpatient heart failure clinic in Connecticut. This gives us the experience and focus needed to help you in every stage of heart failure. We offer:
- Heart and vascular surgery
- Education and support
- Home health coordination
- Inpatient and outpatient cardiac rehabilitation
- Outpatient disease management
- Palliative care
Inpatient and Outpatient Coordinated Care
- In the Hospital: The Hoffman Heart and Vascular Institute is proud have been the first in New England to offer a dedicated Heart Failure Inpatient/Outpatient Coordinated Care unit. Our Congestive Heart Failure unit offers patients 20 single, and four double rooms, each specifically equipped and staffed to provide specialized care for patients experiencing all stages and types of heart failure. We offer some of the most sophisticated therapies to treat heart failure including ultrafiltration, a mechanical method of fluid removal. We hold multidisciplinary rounds daily to provide a holistic approach to the medical, physical, and emotional needs of our patients and their families.
- In the Community: The goal of our disease management program is to improve health and quality of life for people with heart failure by connecting them to additional resources, by educating them about managing their disease, and by reducing unnecessary hospitalizations. Using best practices and clinical guidelines, we coordinate the care of our patients through the course of their disease, providing information and tools to help patients effectively manage their condition.
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