Heart Failure Clinic in Southeast Idaho
If you have heart failure, your treatment plan should be designed to help prevent your condition from getting worse, control your symptoms, and ensure you have the best quality of life possible. Portneuf Medical Center’s Heart Failure clinic provides state-of-the-art care for adults with heart failure using evidence-based therapies. Our nurses and cardiac rehabilitation team helps patients understand and plan their diet, exercise and lifestyle changes so that together we can control your heart failure symptoms and help you enjoy as many regular activities as possible.
About heart failure
Heart failure is a chronic condition in which the heart muscle is no longer able to pump enough blood through the heart to meet the body’s needs for blood and oxygen. When the heart can’t pump as it should, blood and fluids back up in the body, which may cause swelling in the belly, legs, hands, and feet and may cause weight gain. A person with heart failure may feel tired, dizzy, short of breath, especially at night or when lying down. Too much fluid in the lungs may also cause coughing, which is why most people with congestive heart failure experience shortness of breath despite having an active lifestyle.
If you have heart failure, your treatment plan should be designed to help prevent your condition from getting worse, control your symptoms, and help you have the best quality of life possible.
Conditions we treat
Using state-of-the-art technology, our Heart Failure clinic provide patient-focused care for a wide range of conditions that cause heart failure, including:
- Advanced congenital heart disease
- Amyloidosis related heart failure
- Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD)
- Cardiac sarcoidosis
- Cardiogenic shock
- Dilated cardiomyopathy
- Heart failure due to arrhythmias
- Heart failure due to valve disease
- Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
- Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Ischemic cardiomyopathy
- Peripartum cardiomyopathy
Services at our Heart Failure Clinic
Our Heart Failure Program offers comprehensive support and care for patients with heart failure. We provide structured education on the disease process, guideline-directed medical therapy for medication management, and guidance on diet, exercise, and social well-being. We promote self-care and ensure easy access to our dedicated heart failure team, including MDs, NPs, and RNs, who respond quickly to patient questions, concerns, and needs. We provide close follow-up after hospital discharge or periods of instability, with early recognition and management of fluid overload symptoms and changes in condition.
Services we provide for patients with heart failure include:
- Assistance from our nurses and cardiac rehabilitation team in understanding and planning diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes to control heart failure symptoms and maintain regular activities
- Ensuring patients take the correct medications to prevent heart deterioration, avoid hospitalization, and reduce mortality risk
- Individualized testing and treatment to meet each patient’s needs
- Remote monitoring for devices like the CardioMEMS Heart Failure System to remotely keep track of your condition, make changes to your medications when needed, and help you avoid the need for hospitalization.
Please call 208-239-3899 to learn more about our Heart Failure Clinic.