Heart Disease Heart disease is the biggest health risk Americans face today. If you don’t have heart disease now, you can help prevent it. Here are the tools to get you started.

Heart Health Quiz Heart-attack deaths have fallen 60 percent in three decades. Still, millions of Americans suffer from cardiovascular diseases linked with heart attacks and strokes.

Heart Disease Risk Factors Clinical Wizard One of the ways you can help prevent heart disease is by knowing your risk factors.

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When you or someone you love needs heart care, an experienced cardiac team can make all the difference.

The director of our open heart program, Antonios Chryssos, MD, FACS, FACC, has performed nearly 5,000 open-heart operations in his 22-year career. Together with the rest of our established cardiac team, these gifted professionals help heart patients go on to live fuller, more robust lives. With expertise achieved through years of dedication and intense focus, our cardiac team performs a wide variety of heart care services, from diagnosis to intervention to rehabilitation.

For you or your loved one, that means each patient benefits from the combined knowledge of caring professionals who have made heart care their life’s passion.

“This is a heart program
we would feel confident
bringing our families to.”

When we designed Affinity Heart Center, we consulted with our team of experienced cardiologists. With their input, we custom built a state-of-the-art facility equipped with advanced cardiovascular technology and comfortable, family-friendly recovery rooms. The result is an incredible heart care program right here in your local community.

During an emergency, the closest medical facility that offers timely cardiac intervention is the very best option for heart patients. That’s because the sooner the blood supply can be restored, the better the outcome is for the individual. Our heart program is right here in the local community providing comprehensive cardiac care when seconds count. Not only can this lead to better patient outcomes, but it also makes visiting your loved ones easier and more convenient.

Technology

In skilled hands, medical technology helps save lives. That’s why we equipped our facility with some of the best imaging technology currently available, including a 64-slice CT scanner and 3D cardiac ECHO machines. These remarkable devices let us diagnose potentially serious heart problems faster and more accurately than ever before. Combined with our state-of-the-art catheterization labs, it’s easy to see why our technology is just as impressive as our cardiac team.

One-Stop Post Op™

One Stop Post Op is an innovative recovery model that allows open heart patients to stay in a single room after surgery. Rather than move from room to room and department to department, our cardiac patients receive care from specially trained critical care nurses in a single, family-friendly recovery room.

Patients love this approach because it surrounds them with familiar faces in a warm, comfortable setting and makes it easier for friends and family to offer support along the way. Families always know where their loved ones are and who is taking care of them. They become partners in patient care.