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Heart Center
Heart Center
Put yourself on a path for heart health
By offering optimal treatments in a comfortable and enriching environment, Saint John’s Heart Center has been a leading cardiovascular center in southern California with a broad range of services and expertise for the most complex heart conditions. Our partnership with Keck Medicine of USC cardiac surgery program expands our surgical capabilities, providing world-class cardiac surgical care close to home.
Our highly personalized community hospital environment enhances our team’s ability to completely focus on your needs. Choosing to receive your heart care at Providence Saint John’s allows your physician to stay personally involved in your care at all times. Our goal is to provide the highest level of care in a calm, tranquil environment designed with healing in mind.
Providence Saint John’s Health Center is honored to be recognized by U.S News and World Report as a high performing hospital in heart failure and heart attack, as well as a Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care designation, as part of the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program. Blue Distinction Centers are nationally designated providers that show expertise in delivering improved patient safety and better health outcomes, based on objective measures that were developed with input from the medical community and leading accreditation and quality organizations.
In order to accurately diagnose heart conditions and offer precise treatment, our heart specialists use non-invasive diagnostic testing designed to measure the heart's performance, pinpoint problems and accurately identify the most appropriate treatment. These techniques, along with invasive diagnostic and interventional therapies make up our wide range of testing procedures. These state-of-the-art diagnostic tests include:
- Arterial duplex scans (Carotid and Femoral)
- Cardiac catheterization (angiogram)
- Echocardiogram (Transthoracic, Exercise, Transesophageal)
- Electrocardiogram (EKG, Signal Average)
- Electrophysiologic testing
- MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
- Nuclear stress testing
- Pacemaker/ICD testing
- PET scanning (at Tower Saint John's Imaging)
- Pharmacological stress echocardiography
- Tilt table testing
- Treadmill stress test
- Ultrafast CT scan for coronary calcium score
- Venous duplex scans
With comprehensive cardiovascular procedures and diagnostic exams, our cardiac team evaluates symptoms and provides treatment for heart issues such as:
- Aneurysm
- Arrhythmia
- Angina
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Cardiomyopathy
- Chest Pain
- Claudication
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Endocarditis
- Hypertension
- Heart Attack
- Heart Disease Risk Factors
- Heart Failure
- Rheumatic Heart Disease
- Sinus Bradycardia
- Ventricular Tachycardia
The Heart and Vascular Center makes use of advanced techniques to provide optimal treatments for cardiovascular diseases. Our treatments include:
- Coronary angiography
- Electrophysiology/Arrhythmia services
- Ablation therapy
- Automatic Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators (AICD)
- Electrophysiological Studies
- Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
- MAZE and mini-MAZE procedures
- Pacemakers
- Endomyocardial Biopsy
- Angioplasty and stenting
- Atherectomy
- Automatic Internal Cardiac Defibrillator Placement (AICD)
- Balloon valvuplasty
- Cardiac Catheterization and Cath Lab
- Transradial cardiac catheterization Impella, percutaneously inserted VAD
- Cardiopulmonary Support (CPS)
- Drug-eluting Stent (DES) placement
- Intra-aortic Balloon Pump Placement (IABP)
- Pacemaker and biventricular pacemaker
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
- Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)
- Stent placement
- Thrombectomy (clot removal)
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
- WATCHMAN is a one time, minimally invasive procedure that reduces stroke risk and bleeding worry for life
- Adult congenital defect repairs
- Arrhythmia surgery
- Bloodless heart surgery
- Emergent, Portable Cardiopulmonary Bypass (CPS)
- Heart Bypass Surgery (coronary artery bypass grafting surgery or CABG)
- MAZE and mini-MAZE Procedures
- Mechanical Assist Device (MAD) placement
- Ventricular Assist Device (VAD)
- Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)
- Right Ventricular Assist Device (RVAD)
- Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy
- Septal Defect Repair (ASO, PFO)
- Vein harvesting
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