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Heart Failure

Cardiac Services BC coordinates the delivery of services to treat and manage heart failure. These services are provided through the regional health authorities.
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We provide leadership to a provincial heart failure strategy, which will improve
access to resources and care. Heart failure diagnostics and specialist care are
provided through the regional health authorities, at heart failure clinics across
the province, and at the provincial advanced heart failure program at St. Paul's
Hospital. This includes mechanical circulatory support, ventricular assist
devices as a bridge to heart transplant, and medical management of advanced
heart failure.

Heart failure clinics

BC's five regional health authorities are responsible for leading their regional plan and providing access to heart failure clinics located in the community or in hospital.

Island Health HF Clinics

Fraser Health HF Clinics

Vancouver Coastal Health HF Clinics

Providence Health Care HF Clinics

Interior Health HF Clinics




Program highlights

More than 90,000 British Columbians live with heart failure; a number expected to double by 2030. Heart failure is one of the most expensive chronic diseases in BC with an annual estimated cost to the health care system of $590 million.

Cardiac Services BC led the creation of a provincial heart failure strategy, which
 included development of resources for healthcare professionals and patients.

We continue to provide leadership to a provincial heart failure strategy, which
 will improve access to resources and care. Heart failure diagnostics and
 specialist care are provided through the regional health authorities, at heart
failure clinics across the province, and at the provincial advanced heart failure
program at St. Paul's Hospital. This includes mechanical circulatory support,
ventricular assist devices as a bridge to heart transplant, and medical
management of advanced heart failure.




Procedure volumes

In 2014, BC Transplant funded 22 heart transplants. In support of patients waiting for transplants, in 2014/15 Cardiac Services BC funded:

  • 20 procedures for ventricular assist device (VAD) implantation

We monitor multiple aspects of heart disease and health system statistics in BC, including wait times and patient outcomes for these procedures.

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