How the NCH Heart Care Team is Here for You

When it comes to getting care for your heart condition symptoms, a chronic disease like congestive heart failure or heart attack symptoms, use your head. Trust the only hospital in the area ranked in the top 10 percent of hospitals nationwide for cardiac services and #2 in Illinois for coronary intervention—Northwest Community Hospital.

As a result of our experience, expertise and excellent outcomes, we've been ranked a Top 100 Hospital for Cardiovascular Care by Thomson Reuters for the past five years. We were the first accredited Chest Pain Center in the Northwest Suburbs. And we perform more cardiac procedures, including open heart surgeries, than many of the leading teaching hospitals.

Whether you're seeking a heart screening, diagnosis of heart valve symptoms, signs of congestive heart failure, heart blockage symptoms or another existing problem or surgical treatment, we're here for you—and your heart—with a technologically advanced, comprehensive cardiac program, close to home.

Nationally recognized for superior care of heart attacks and strokes:

• Named one of the 100 Top Hospitals for Cardiovascular Care 2009 by Thomson Reuters, a global healthcare information company.
• Recipient of the 2010 HealthGrades^® Cardiac Care Excellence™ Award.
• Recipient of the 2010 HealthGrades Coronary Intervention Excellence™ Award.
• Designated a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission.
• Renewed accreditation as a Chest Pain Center by the Society of Chest Pain Centers.
• Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care by Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Personalized and compassionate support:

• Multidisciplinary teams of cardiovascular specialists meet weekly to discuss cases for comprehensive care
• Magnet™-designated, specially trained nurses care for your specific heart condition

State-of-the-art technologies for early detection and safer treatments:

• Safer, non-invasive methods for evaluating heart blockage symptoms and detecting coronary blockages with the Dual Source CT Scanner.
• da Vinci^® Robotic Surgical System that lowers your risk for infection.
• Full range of procedures normally found only in university hospitals, such as complex ablation procedures to carefully remove damaged or defective tissue.
• Clinical expertise, advanced cardiac catheterization lab and electrophysiology services.

Partnerships with area teaching hospitals:

• Electrophysiology specialists from the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation provide additional expertise in treating serious heart rhythm disturbances.
• Collaborate with Children's Memorial Hospital. Pediatric cardiologists are available by appointment at the CMH Outpatient Pediatric Center at NCH.

Call HealthConnection at 847.618.4YOU (4968) or view our team of heart care physicians to find a specialist who is right for you.