Heart Success Program

The Heart Success Program at Morristown Memorial Hospital is a comprehensive inpatient and outpatient management program designed to provide specialized care for patients with advanced heart failure, cardiomyopathies and pulmonary hypertension.

Under the direction of a nationally recognized leader in advanced heart failure care and cardiac transplant, our expert team evaluates patients and develops a comprehensive plan of care for both the patient and family.

Open, ongoing communication with the referring physicians regarding the patient's progress and eventual discharge from the program is the cornerstone of our approach.

Patients receive intensive education focusing on techniques for self-care management, telemanagement, access to cutting-edge research and state-of-the-art diagnostic testing.

Examples of our services include:

• Impedance Cardiography (ICG) - Also known as thoracic electrical bioimpedance (TEB), impedance cardiology is a non-invasive method of measuring changes in blood flow in the heart and lungs over time. 
  
  
• Acoustic Cardiography - This cutting-edge, non-invasive technology enables clinicians to integrate heart sounds and echocardiogram data to measure heart function and blood flow. 
  
  
• Cardiopulmonary Metabolic Exercise Stress Testing (CMET) - This non-invasive test checks heart, lungs and functional capacity at the same time, providing more comprehensive data than the standard treadmill stress test. 
  
  
• Ventricular-Assist Device Evaluations (VAD) - consist of a pumping chamber and a power source to temporarily assist the heart to pump blood, may be implanted or totally external to the body and activated by electromagnetic motors. VADs are sometimes used after myocardial infarction or to provide a bridge therapy between heart failure and transplantation. Longer term therapy, or destination therapy, may be considered in the appropriate candidate.
  
  
• Transplant Evaluation - Over the last decade, cardiac transplantation has evolved into the treatment of choice for many patients with severe heart failure (HF) who continue to have symptoms despite maximum medical therapy. Survival among cardiac transplant recipients has improved over the past 30 years as a result of improvements in immuno-suppression and prevention, and treatment of infection. This success, coupled with the critical shortage of donor organs, makes it imperative to restrict heart transplantation to patients who are most disabled by heart failure and who are likely to derive the maximum benefit from transplantation.
  
  
• Cardiac Rehabilitation - Medically-supervised low-intensity exercise can help people with heart failure improve their strength, stamina and feeling of well-being, and respond better to their medications.
  
  
• Integrative Medicine - Integrative Medicine techniques can activate the body's natural healing capacity and help patients begin the process of developing a heart healthy lifestyle.