Saint Francis Heart and Vascular Institute offers trusted, advanced heart care for people living with heart failure. If you need heart care in Tulsa, our team can help you feel better and stay active.
Heart failure can be a long-term health problem, but many people can manage it with the right plan, healthy habits, and medication.
Comprehensive Heart Failure Services in Eastern Oklahoma
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Advanced Diagnostic Testing
Advanced Diagnostic Testing
- Echocardiography
- Cardiac MRI: Specifically for diagnosis and treatment approaches of Amyloidosis
- Sarcoidosis
- Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Valve Disease
- Right heart catheterization with exercise
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing
- Genetic testing
- Coronary artery disease imaging and risk assessment
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Medication Management
Medication Management
- Expert evaluation and optimization of heart failure medications
- Close monitoring and adjustment of medication regimens as needed
- Education on medication compliance and possible side effects
- Advanced Remote Monitoring: Technology and devices for chronic disease management
- Iron infusion: Available in Tulsa, Muskogee and Vinita
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Lifestyle Modification
Lifestyle Modification
- Individualized dietary counseling for heart-healthy nutrition
- Exercise plan and guidance for physical activity
- Smoking cessation support
- Sleep study
- Cardiac rehabilitation
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Device Therapy
Device Therapy
- Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs): implants providing protection against life-threatening arrhythmias
- Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT): improving heart function and coordination
- Cardiac Contractility Modulation (CCM): Optimizing contraction of the heart muscle
- Baroreceptor Stimulating Treatment: implantable device helping the heart pump more efficiently
- Heart Replacement Evaluation
- Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD): surgically implanted mechanical pump that helps weakened heart pump blood
- Transplant evaluation and follow-up
Coordinated Care During and After Your Hospital Stay
While you are in the hospital, a nurse specialist helps guide your care and plan for your next steps. Before you go home, we review your medicines, diet, and follow-up visits. Next steps may include:
- Home Health visits, if you qualify
- Cardiac Rehab to help you build strength safely
- Care in a skilled nursing facility, if needed
- Follow-up visits with your primary care doctor and heart doctor
- Help from our pharmacy, nutrition team, and counselors
Ways to Reduce Your Risk of Heart Failure
Heart failure can affect anyone, and sometimes it develops because of factors you cannot control, like age, gender or genetic attributes. Below are lifestyle choices you can make to reduce your risk of heart failure:
- Do not smoke. Tobacco is the number one preventable cause of death.
- Eat a heart-healthy diet including less unhealthy fat, cholesterol and salt and more sources of low-fat protein, whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
- Exercise at least 30 minutes a day (or shorter bursts of ten minutes at a time, three times a day).
- Maintain a desirable body weight.
- Limit stress as much as possible.
- Limit your use of alcohol.
Get Care Now
If you think you may have a heart problem, call your primary care provider. If you do not have a primary doctor and you are looking for heart care in Tulsa, call the Well Connected Hotline at 918-488-6688 to find a provider with Saint Francis Health System.