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