Cardiac Enhancement Center

For people living with chronic heart failure, the challenges and lifestyle accommodations can be major.

Evergreen's Cardiac Enhancement Center offers ongoing support and management, and also helps coordinate care between your primary care physician and your heart specialist.

Because there's more to treating heart failure than simply taking medications, Evergreen provides extensive education for both patients and their support along with clinic visits and phone follow-ups.

Patient Stories

"Gordy can live life and not be a chronic patient."

Seventy-one-year-old Gordy Cheeley was struggling in spring 2000. He'd already undergone two invasive heart procedures - including a triple bypass - and was working hard in cardiac rehab. But he still wasn't feeling well.

Patient: Gordy Cheely

Our Program

The goal is to help patients feel better and stay out of the hospital. This usually requires a team approach, because chronic heart failure is a life long disease state, and day to day management is essential. 

We recognize the effort this takes, and we strive to partner with patients and their families to help along the way.

• The program begins in the hospital with specialized patient education, including videos, written materials and discharge instructions.
• Nurses begin follow-up phone calls three days after discharge, and call for a month post-discharge.
• Home care services are set up when needed.
• Appropriate patients are referred for outpatient management of heart failure by a cardiology nurse practitioner at the Cardiac Enhancement Center. The nurse practitioner meets regularly with heart failure patients, usually every week or two in the beginning, until stabilization occurs. The meetings are less frequent once patients are successfully managing their condition. If extra help is needed, other healthcare team members can be called upon to assist patients and family members as they handle this chronic disease. 

The program was recognized with a 2005 Award of Excellence in Healthcare Quality from Qualis Health, which recognizes innovations that make measurable improvements in outcomes for patients. 

Evergreen is also one of the leaders in a local task force of healthcare professional leaders from multiple hospitals who are striving to improve patient safety throughout the continuum of care for heart failure.

For More Information

For more information, please call 425.899.2789.

Cardiac Enhancement Center
Evergreen Surgery & Physicians Center  
Tan 415
12333 NE 130th Lane
Kirkland, WA  98034