When it comes to your heart, you only want the most experienced and skilled practitioners to help you. But it can be a challenge to see everyone involved in your care, especially if those experts are spread throughout the city. Then there’s the time commitment and coordination of care, making a difficult situation that much harder.
The newest location of the Florence Wormald Heart & Vascular Institute at St. Elizabeth was created to give you quality cardiac care in one convenient location. The facility brings more than 60 multi-specialty providers into one central location on the St. Elizabeth Edgewood campus.
Patients now can get all their care in one place, and even schedule appointments with multiple heart specialists within the same day. “The idea is to streamline the process for the patient, offering advanced heart care in a more efficient manner,” says Dr. DP Suresh, cardiologist and executive medical director at the Heart & Vascular Institute.
This new building brings the Heart & Vascular Institute specialists and services together in a new 67,000-square-foot building. The state-of-the-art facility includes:
• cardiology
• cardiac electrophysiology
• cardiac surgery
• cardiac rehabilitation
• an outpatient catheterization lab
• the Advanced Heart Failure Management Center
• the Structural Heart & Valve Center
• cardiovascular genetics
• cardiac clinical trials
• an on-site lab
• diagnostic services
Suresh says they are the first in the tri-state region to have all the cardiac specialists plus cardiac diagnostics and cardiac rehab under one roof.
Having all the specialties and physicians’ offices in one building means that whether you need a cardiologist, heart failure specialist, arrhythmia specialist, or cardiac surgeon, you don’t need to travel to different offices. This convenience improves and personalizes patient care.
One example for patients with pacemakers or other implanted devices: “Having a centralized device process means that we can take care of all of these patients in one visit, either in person or in a remote method,” Suresh says.
St. Elizabeth will be able to care for even more people in the community who have complex cardiac needs thanks to the generous support from William J. Yung III. The Heart & Vascular Institute is now the Florence Wormald Heart & Vascular Institute at St. Elizabeth, named after Yung’s mother. Her courage, independence and pioneering spirit were catalysts in Yung’s life. The $7 million donation will be used for facilities, equipment and physician recruitment.
“In terms of recruitment, our goal is to hire some of the best physicians in the country and bring them to Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky to practice here,” says Suresh. He adds that since the Heart & Vascular Institute first opened in 2015, they have grown exponentially from starting with just seven physicians. “Now we have more than 30 multi-specialty physicians and 30 advanced practice providers from St. Elizabeth Healthcare and St. Elizabeth Physicians, all in one centralized location.”
If you’re worried about your heart, contact the Florence Wormald Heart & Vascular Institute at St. Elizabeth at stelizabeth.com/heart or call 859-287-3045.