Prevention and Rehabilitation
Cardiac rehabilitation combines exercise and education to help people with heart disease make positive lifestyle changes. Our multi-disciplinary teams of professionals includes registered nurses, exercise specialists, a registered dietitian, a medical social worker, an occupational therapist, a cardiologist, a psychologist, and a lipidologist. Our mission is to assist you in restoring and maintaining your optimum physiological, spiritual, social, vocational and emotional well being.
Cardiac Rehab at St. John Health
Noninvasive Cardiology and Diagnostic Testing
Heart disease diagnosis and testing is conducted for outpatient and admitted patients at the noninvasive cardiology department. Our noninvasive cardiology department staffs include cardiologists, exercise physiologists, echo technologists and ECG technicians.
St. John Hospital and Medical Center
Providence Hospital
St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital, Macomb Center
Invasive Cardiology
Invasive cardiology, also known as interventional cardiology, uses minimally invasive surgical procedures that are performed during a heart catheterization. These procedures include opening narrowed areas with balloons and stents, closing unwanted vessels with coils or intravascular devices, and ablation for unwanted rhythm problems. Procedures include stents and angioplasty, done for the treatment of coronary artery disease.
St. John Hospital and Medical Center
Providence Hospital
St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital, Macomb Center
Heart Rhythm Center (Electrophysiology)
Electrophysiology is the study of the heart's electrical activity. This study can help your doctor find an irregular heart rhythm, show how well medications work, and help determine treatment for any rhythm problems.
St. John Hospital and Medical Center
Providence Hospital
St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital, Macomb Center
Cardiovascular Surgery
With leading-edge technology and highly trained and experienced cardiovascular surgeons and nurses, St. John Health provides advanced care to hundreds of cardiac patients each year. We’re known as pioneers in cardiac surgery – helping to develop new surgical procedures, including robotic bypass and valve surgery.
St. John Hospital and Medical Center
Providence Hospital
St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital, Macomb Center
St. John da Vinci® Surgical System
This cutting-edge technology is a computer-enhanced minimally invasive surgical system developed through the use of the latest advancements in robotics and computer technology. Known as the “robot,” the da Vinci® allows a specially trained surgeon to operate while seated at a console using master controls to manipulate instruments and viewing the surgical site via a tiny camera that transmits a magnified 3-dimensional image of the surgical area to a television screen. Foot pedals allow the surgeon to reposition the operating image, and hand controls are used to send electronic signals from the surgeon’s wrist, hand and finger movements to the computerized micro-surgical instrument arms, which have tiny instruments at their ends. These instruments allow the surgeon to cut, suction, cauterize, stitch and remove tissue more precisely. Heart disease patients can benefit from the da Vinci® robot which requires only a few tiny incisions, or ports, are necessary to perform the minimally invasive surgery. The da Vinci® Surgical System results in shorter hospital stays, fewer complications, quicker recovery, less scarring and a faster return to work or activities.
Treatment for Chronic Conditions
It’s an accepted fact that some patients are easier to manage than others. To help with those who present special challenges in cardiology, the Providence Heart Institute presents Cardiology Specialty Clinics, including the Lipid Clinic, Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic.
Providence Heart Institute Cardiology Specialty Clinics
