Heart failure is a top priority for CV service lines across the country. But with increasing volumes, complexity, and margin pressure, developing an efficient and effective heart failure program is a persistent challenge.

Welcome to our heart failure resource center, your one-stop-shop for the insights and tools you need to build a high-value, patient-centered heart failure program.

Explore resources to help you:

• Improve HF inpatient and transitional care
• Better manage HF in the outpatient setting
• Build or grow an advanced HF program

Not sure where to get started? Check out our top resources at each stage:

Inpatient and transitional care support

• Tool: CV Medical Readmission Reduction Toolkit

Outpatient heart failure management

• Research report: Build the Next-Generation Heart Failure Program

Advanced heart failure programs

• Research report: Optimizing Advanced Heart Failure Programs

Inpatient and transitional care support

1. Support HF patients in the inpatient setting
   • Tool: Toolkit to Reduce HF Care Variation in the Acute Setting
2. Improve care transitions to reduce readmissions
   • Tool: CV Medical Readmission Reduction Toolkit
3. Provide condition specific care to reduce readmissions
   • Case Study: How UPMC Harrisburg Improved Heart Failure Care and Outcomes

Outpatient heart failure management

1. Improve outpatient HF patient care
   • Research report: Build the Next-Generation Heart Failure Program
2. Benchmark your HF clinic's staffing and operations
   • Tool: Heart Failure Clinic Design Benchmarks (p. 6-12)
3. Coordinate across the continuum of care
   • Resource: Resources for Optimizing HF Management Across the Continuum

Implementation Support Tools

• Ready-to-Present Slides: Why to Invest in Outpatient Heart Failure Services
• New Hanover's Heart Healthy Eating Guide
• Dignity's HF Zone Educational Materials
• New Hanover's HF Referring Physician Guide
• CHAMP Nurse-Led Follow-Up Call Care Protocols
• Aurora's HF Care Process Pathway
• New Hanover's CHF SNF Handoff Communication Tool
• New Hanover's SNF HF Symptom Tracker Tool

Advanced heart failure programs

1. Understand the current landscape and what successful programs are doing
   • Research report: Optimizing Advanced Heart Failure Programs
2. Use our survey results to assess your program's operations
   • Advanced Heart Failure Program Benchmarks (p. 13-16)
3. Read our introductions to advanced heart failure technologies
   • The Planner's Introduction to ECMO Investment
   • The Planner's Guide to VAD Development

Implementation Support Tools

• ECMO MS-DRG assignment is changing'what does this mean for your program?
• Treat HF App for Clinicians
• 5 key takeaways on the new heart transplant allocation guidelines
• Shared Decision Making Education Pamphlet for DTT VAD
• University of Utah's Referral Coordinator Job Description
• University of Utah's MCS Anticoagulation Pathway
• University of Utah's MCS VAD GI Bleed Care
• Pre- and Post-Implantation Standard Patient Pathways
• ACC Guidelines for HF Specialist Referral Triggers