Programs and Services
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WakeMed's comprehensive cardiac care program features education, prevention, diagnosis, intervention, surgery and cardiac rehab.
Supporting Departments and Services
Congestive Heart Failure Program
Designed to work in conjunction with the patient's primary care physician and cardiologist, the WakeMed Congestive Heart Failure Program provides the patient with tools and education designed to help the patient manage one's lifestyle while suffering from the condition.
Code STEMI
Introduced at WakeMed in March 2006, Code STEMI is designed to enable patients presenting to the hospital with acute coronary syndrome or a heart attack to undergo an angioplasty in the catheterization lab in under 90 minutes. This speed to treatment is proven to decrease lasting damage to the heart muscle.
Healthworks & Cardiac Rehab
The cardiac rehabilitation program offered through Healthworks at WakeMed is a North Carolina state-certified and medically directed program for individuals who have had a recent cardiac event. The program is designed to assist patients in recovering from their recent event, to learn more about heart disease and to make lifestyle improvements in order to reduce their cardiovascular risk factors. Physician referral is required.
Mobile Care: Expertise Beyond the Heart Center Walls
WakeMed Mobile Critical Care Services has 20 vehicles and one air ambulance that serve approximately 1,000 critically ill patients each month and is the busiest inter-facility ground transport service in the state.
Emergency Care and Chest Pain Observation Units
WakeMed Raleigh Campus: The WakeMed Emergency Department is equipped to provide the urgent, specialized care you need. The Chest Pain Observation Unit is equipped with 12 beds, all closely monitored by our specially-trained staff working hard to determine the cause of your chest pain.
WakeMed Cary Hospital: Within the Emergency Department at WakeMed Cary Hospital is another Chest Pain Observation Unit.
Cary Hospital Cardiac Catheterization Lab
WakeMed's cardiology expertise extends off of the WakeMed Raleigh Campus, too. WakeMed Cary Hospital features a Cardiac Catheterization Lab for diagnostic evaluation of cardiac patients as well as pacemaker implants and peripheral vascular studies. If specialized care is needed, the Cary Hospital Catheterization Lab is closely aligned with the WakeMed Heart Center.
The Heart Center Conference Center
A 5,000-sq. ft. facility with fully equipped rooms for conferences and symposia. WakeMed physicians frequently use the facility to present research findings and host experts in cardiovascular disease treatment and management for partner physicians and health care professionals.
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