Clinical Services

The Cardiovascular Center at South Shore Hospital offers the region’s most comprehensive approach to the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment and management of cardiovascular disease.  All in one convenient location.

Features the region's largest, most comprehensive diagnostic lab, including:

• Cardiac and vascular ultrasound
• EKG and Holter monitor testing
• Regular and nuclear stress testing
• Cardiovascular MRI and CT including the region's first 64-slice, high-speed CT
• A patient resource center

Four procedure rooms for cardiovascular disease treatments including:

• Cardiac catheterization and angioplasty
• Peripheral vascular treatments and angioplasty
• Electrophysiology diagnostic studies and therapies

Critical Care Units, staffed by intensivist physicians and nurses who are experts in critical care, include:

• A dedicated Coronary Care Unit that cares for our most critically ill cardiac patients.
• A dedicated Cardiac Care Inpatient (telemetry) Unit to care for patients needing cardiac monitoring.
• A Chest Pain Unit, which evaluates our patients with chest pain, to determine a course of treatment.

Disease Management Programs, including:

• A four-phase Cardiac Rehabilitation program
• A dedicated Cardiac Home Health Team within our
  Home Care Division
• Pediatric Cardiology Clinic in conjunction with Children's Hospital Boston
• Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Clinic
• Cardiac Support Group
• The Friends of Cardiovascular Affinity Group