Trust your heart to nothing less

The heart and vascular systems demand extraordinary care. And we’re providing it throughout western Michigan. It begins with heart specialists in 13 counties who can expertly monitor your entire heart and vascular system. If you’re at risk, you’re connected to our Fred and Lena Meijer Heart Center, where some of the leading medical minds in Michigan can perform anything from a bypass to vascular surgery to a heart and lung transplant. Discover a true continuum of heart and vascular care.

Lifesaving care takes teamwork

We not only believe in teamwork, we practice it. Our team of heart and vascular specialists offers a uniquely collaborative approach to research, clinical trials and patient care. By combining our expertise, we’re at the forefront of heart and vascular care in Michigan.

Unmatched skill and expertise

Today, we’re the only program in western Michigan approved to perform all three surgeries: open heart surgery, heart and lung transplant surgery and ventricular assist device (VAD) implantation.

Michael Crawford - Heart attack survivor
Michael Crawford Heart attack survivor
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#1 in lifesaving care

Spectrum Health provides more advanced lifesaving heart and vascular care than anywhere else in Michigan.1

This includes:

  • Open heart surgeries
  • Pacemakers/implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs)
  • Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs)
  • Ablations
  • Abdominal aortic aneurysm repairs

Giving you a complete continuum of care

  • Angioplasty
  • Cardiac Rehabilitation
  • Cardiovascular Genetics
  • Carotid Stent
  • Electrophysiology (EP) Ablation
  • Heart Failure
  • Heart and Lung Transplant
  • Open Heart Surgery
  • Robotic Surgery
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
  • Vascular Surgery
  • Ventricular Assist Device (VAD)
1. Discharge volumes for cardiovascular thoracic (CVT) rankings: Michigan Health & Hospital Association’s Michigan Inpatient Database, Fiscal Year 2014.

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