Advanced Heart Recovery
Our passionate team comprises cardiologists, surgeons and heart failure specialists who offer our community a tailored plan of care.
Rethinking care for complex needs
2024 Outcomes
Overview
The Advanced Heart Recovery team offers a tailored approach through its highly integrated, multidisciplinary collaboration. This approach gives patients a full 360-degree view of their plan of care and provides optimal patient outcomes.Accomplishments
- Grew the left ventricular assist device (LVAD) program at Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital – Plano to one of the largest destination therapy programs in the country.
- Developed an enhanced outreach strategy by connecting with other centers in Texas to collaborate on better care for cardiogenic shock.
- Expanded heart recovery clinics in underserved rural communities.
- Actively participated in over 15 national trials, including the EMPACT-MI trial, for developing treatment plans to lower the risk of heart failure and death in our MI population, and the CRISPR trial, using a technology for gene editing to study the genetic basis of the disease in the amyloid population.
- Obtained recertification for LVAD and heart failure, supporting our commitment to providing the best possible care and outcomes.
- Achieved initial Comprehensive Cardiac Center Certification at the Plano location, the first facility in Collin County, third in Texas and 21st in the US to receive this certification.
- Received Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research Center of Excellence certification for our sarcoidosis clinic. There has also been remarkable growth of the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, amyloid, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and adult congenital heart disease clinics.
On the horizon
- Development of a comprehensive outpatient diuresis clinic to decrease emergency room visits and readmissions.
- Patient reunion events for LVAD, ECMO and shock populations.
- Center of Excellence certification for the hypertrophic clinic.
“The Heart Recovery program manages patients who require complex medical management. Through the partnership with our patients, the dedication of our multidisciplinary team and our support groups, we have seen impressive improvements leading to a higher quality of life.”
David Rawitscher, MD
Medical Director, Heart Failure
Aasim Afzal, MD
Medical Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support
Timothy George, MD
Surgical Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support
ECMO Outcomes FY24 (N=62)
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We offer comprehensive treatment through clinics for the following diseases:
- Sarcoidosis
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Amyloidosis
- HFpEF/dyspnea
Quality awards 2024
Achievements placing us among the elite
Comprehensive Cardiac Care
Plano
Gold Center of Excellence
Hypertrophic Clinic
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