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The experienced team at Cincinnati’s heart hospital offers advanced options for those with late-stage heart issues. Among those options is the implantation of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) at Bethesda North Hospital. TriHealth is a recognized a leader in quality and outcomes. The multidisciplinary team experienced in heart conditions brings together all the caregivers and treatments necessary to provide the best, personalized options for a patient’s quality and longevity of life.
An LVAD is a mechanical pump implanted inside a patient’s chest to help a weakened heart pump blood. This cutting-edge clinical technology is part of TriHealth’s rapidly expanding Advanced Heart Failure program, based at our destination Heart Hospital on the Bethesda North campus. And it further establishes TriHealth as a comprehensive and high quality heart program, as proven by having the distinction as the region’s only cardiac surgery care program to attain a “3-Star” rating with the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) for coronary bypass surgery, several years in a row. This places our cardiac surgery program in the top decile nationally for quality.
Bringing the highest level of expertise to the TriHealth Heart Failure program are:
Kathryn O’Keefe MDSurgical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support and LVAD Program (who completed training on LVAD implantation at the Cleveland Clinic) |
Sateesh Kesari MDAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist and Medical Director of the LVAD program. |