Keeping Your Heart Beating Strong
St. Mary's cardiac center and our cardiac surgeons and team are here to help you with a range of services from prevention and chronic disease management to advanced diagnostic procedures and treatment, always with the goal of keeping your heart beating strong.
At St. Mary's Heart and Vascular Center at St. Mary Medical Center, we combine advanced heart medical care services with dignity, respect and compassion for the patient and their family. We're a leader in heart care in Long Beach, nationally recognized and known for our innovative thinking.
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We also have an extensive Congestive Heart Failure program, a Pacemaker and AICD clinic and a women's heart center.
Our expertise and quality outcomes have made us a cardiac center of excellence for many major health insurers.
St. Mary Medical Center Long Beach has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Silver Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring heart failure patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines founded in the latest scientific evidence. The goal is speeding recovery and reducing hospital readmissions for heart failure patients.
St. Mary Medical Center Long Beach earned the award by meeting specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure patients at a set level for a designated period. These measures include evaluation of the proper use of medications and aggressive risk-reduction therapies. Before discharge, patients should also receive education on managing their heart failure and overall health, get a follow-up visit scheduled, as well as other care transition interventions.
If you have symptoms of arrhythmia such as a fluttering feeling in your chest, the sensation that your heart is beating too fast or slow, dizziness, or shortness of breath, your doctor may refer you to a cardiac electrophysiologist. Electrophysiology refers to a group of heart treatments that can reduce your symptoms, improve your quality of life, and reduce your risk of a complication like blood clots. Learn More
For more information and to find a physician, please call (888) 301-2607 or use our search tool to Find a Doctor.