Services by Health Authority
This section will outline the current Heart Function Clinics across British Columbia and includes the contact information for each of the clinics.
Heart Function Clinics offer a variety of inter-professional heart failure care and services. For health care professionals it provides opportunities to access heart failure specialized care and advanced heart failure diagnostics. There are opportunities to obtain guidance on how to co-manage a heart failure patient as well as there is the option to transfer your patient’s heart failure care to the clinic staff. Heart Function Clinic staffs provide consultation to physician on how to optimize heart failure medication therapy and improve usage of evidence-based therapies. Patients and health care professionals can also access patient self-management resources and education. The literature suggests that patients who are cared for in a Heart Function Clinic have reduced hospital admissions, have higher rates of adherence to self care activities and optimum therapies, have improved clinical outcomes, improved quality of life and a reduction in mortality.
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Northern Health
Leads for the Heart Failure Strategy:
Dr Firas Mansour
Kristin MasseyNORTH
Network of Rural to Tertiary Health Care
Heart Function Clinic
103-1669 Victoria Street
Prince George, BC
V2L 2L5
Phone: 250-645-6490 -
Interior Health
Leads for the Heart Failure Strategy:
Dr Sandy Baker
Jeannine Costigan- Kelowna Site
Capri center #118-1835
Gordon Drive
Kelowna, BC
V1Y 3H4
250-980-1456
RN: Pamela Luehr - Penticton
Integrated Health Centre
#105-550 Carmi Ave
Penticton, BC
V2A 3G6
250-770-5505
RN: Ellen Fleet - Kamloops
Vascular Improvement Program Clinic
5th Floor Alumnae Tower
311 Columbia St
Kamloops, BC
V2C 2T1
250-314-2727
RN: Sheila Domino - Nelson: Kootenay Lake Hospital
#420 – 3 View St
Nelson, BC
V1L 2V1
250-354-2397
RN: Stacey Lock - Kiro Wellness Centre
1500 Columbia Ave
Trail. BC
V1R 1J9
250-354-2365
Dawn Tomlin (Manager) - Vernon
2101 – 32 St
Vernon, BC
V1T 5L2
250-558-1259
Lloyd Main (Manager) - Cranbrook
250-432-2018
RN: Catherine Blake
- Kelowna Site
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Fraser Health
Leads for the Heart Failure Strategy:
Dr Amit Khosla
Marg Meloche- Royal Columbian Hospital
220 Royal Ave
New Westminster, BC
V3L 1H6
604-528-5073
RN: Betty Girard - Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre: Heart Health Clinic
3rd floor, 9750 140 St
Surrey, BC
604-582-4584
RN: Claire Prentice - Abbotsford Regional Hospital & Cancer Center (ARHCC)
Cardiac Clinic 2nd Floor Sumas 32900 Marshall Road Abbotsford, BC V2S 0C2 604.851.4700 ext.64 2631 RN: Dianne BrownRidge Meadows Heart Function Clinic
11666 Laity Street
Maple Ridge, BC
V2X 7G5
604-463-4111 (local 55-2077) - RN: Marleen Ouellette
- Royal Columbian Hospital
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Vancouver Island Health
Leads for the Heart Failure Strategy:
Dr Elizabeth Swiggum
Ryan Davis
Carmen Blanchard- Royal Jubilee Hospital (Victoria)
1952 Bay St
Victoria, BC
V8R 1J8
250-370-8111 ext. 13165
RN: Susan Kerr - Nanaimo Regional General Hospital
1200 Dufferin Cresent
Nanaimo, BC
V9S 2B7
250-740-6926
RN: Madelene Daniel - Campbell River Hospital
375 2nd Ave
Campbell River, BC
V9W 3V1
250-850-2608
RN: Catherine Wagg
- Royal Jubilee Hospital (Victoria)
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Vancouver Coastal Health/ Providence Health
Leads for the Heart Failure Strategy:
Dr Sean Virani
Janis McGladrey
Suzanne Nixon- St Paul’s Hospital
1081 Burrard St
Vancouver, BC
V6Z 1Y6
604- 806-8733
CNS: Suzanne Nixon - Vancouver General Hospital
9th floor- 2775 Laurel St
Vancouver, BC
V5Z 1M9
604-875-4111 ext. 20046
RN/NP: Nola Wurtele and Leah Christoff
- St Paul’s Hospital