About this Location
Welcome to the Heart Failure Clinic at East Jefferson General Hospital
The Heart Failure Clinic at East Jefferson General Hospital is an MPSI practice managed by 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