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Cardiovascular Institute

Our Locations

The Cardiovascular Institute provides a wide array of leading-edge cardiovascular services at the following hospital-based sites:

Allegheny General Hospital

320 East North Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15212

Allegheny General Hospital offers world-class tertiary care for a full spectrum of cardiovascular diseases. AGH specializes in the treatment of patients who have more acute, complex cardiovascular diseases. A national leader in complex operations such as heart transplants, LVAD procedures, repairs of the aorta and aneurysm surgeries, AGH is uniquely qualified to treat patients who need more extensive critical care following surgery.

For the convenience of patients, the Cardiovascular Institute’s main location at Allegheny General Hospital encompasses three clinical centers and additional cardiology offices:

Center for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (CVI-I)
Provides pre- and post-operative consultation for patients undergoing open heart, thoracic and vascular surgery as well as vascular lab testing and specialty wound and lymphedema care.

Center for Cardiovascular Medicine (CVI-II)
Provides advanced heart failure, heart transplant and pulmonary hypertension consultation as well as pacemaker and AICD follow-up.

Center for General Cardiology (CV–III)
Provides general cardiology consultative services including office appointments, echocardiography, and stress testing.

Interventional Cardiology Offices (IV)

Cardiology Associates
Pittsburgh Cardiology Associates 

Provides general cardiology, interventional cardiology and preventative cardiology.

Directions to AGH and Campus Map


 

Forbes Regional Hospital

2570 Haymaker Road
Monroeville, PA 15146

Forbes Regional Hospital provides tertiary care in a community setting—primarily for patients who do not require prolonged critical care following surgery. The Ed Dardanell Heart and Vascular Center offers a full complement of sophisticated cardiovascular services, including:

  • Open heart surgery
  • Invasive peripheral vascular procedures (including interventions)
  • Cardiac catheterization
  • Interventional cardiology
  • Diagnostic electrophysiology
  • Cardiac imaging
  • Stroke Program, providing high quality care for stroke patients from the Emergency Department through rehabilitation
  • Chest Pain Center, designed to provide patients with a streamlined and rapid diagnosis of chest pain

West Penn Hospital

4800 Friendship Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224

West Penn Hospital provides a variety of outpatient cardiovascular services:

  • Cardiology
  • Echocardiography and electrocardiography
  • Anticoagulation Management Center, offering point-of-care testing for patients who require long-term or temporary anticoagulation (blood thinning)

Allegheny Valley Hospital

1301 Carlisle Street
Natrona Heights, PA 15065

Allegheny Valley Hospital provides a variety of outpatient cardiovascular services:

  • Cardiology
  • Electrophysiology
  • Cardiac imaging services, such as angiography, echocardiography and PET/CT
  • Anticoagulation Clinic
  • Chest Pain Evaluation Unit
  • Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation

Canonsburg General Hospital

100 Medical Boulevard
Canonsburg, PA 15317

Canonsburg General Hospital provides a variety of outpatient cardiovascular services:

  • Cardiac imaging services, such as echocardiography and nuclear imaging
  • EP Device Clinic, where patients with life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias can be evaluated and treated with traditional pacemakers and implantable defibrillators (AICDs)
  • Women's Heart Program, offering cardiologist assessment of women's cardiac health, diagnostic testing and treatment

Patients can also consult with interventional cardiology, heart failure and heart transplantation specialists, as well as cardiovascular surgeons, from Allegheny General Hospital.


Community-based Offices

In addition, the Cardiovascular Institute offers a variety of outpatient and cardiac imaging services at the following community-based offices:

  • Canonsburg
  • Clarion
  • Crafton
  • Ellwood City
  • East Liverpool, OH
  • Evans City
  • Fox Chapel
  • Green Tree
  • Grove City
  • Kittanning
  • Lower Burrell
  • McCandless
  • Monroeville
  • Moon Township
  • Natrona Heights
  • Peters
  • Robinson
  • Uniontown
  • West Mifflin 

 

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