When you are admitted to the hospital, it is important for the hospital staff to know your wishes for your healthcare.
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While you are admitted, or even after you are discharged from hospital, you should feel comfortable to ask your health care provider, “Did you wash your hands?” The Heart Institute posts hand hygiene compliance rates.
Healing Hearts Together (HHT) is a relationship-education program for couples that aims to enhance couples’ relationship quality, and mental and physical health.
What you eat affects important factors that contribute to heart disease. If you have a condition such as coronary artery disease (CAD) or heart failure, healthy eating can slow the progression of your condition and help you manage it, as well as improve the health of your arteries.
The purpose of this guide is to provide information about heart failure, to outline the treatment options and to provide tips on managing your heart failure.
The Heart Healthy Living Guide was developed for people who have been diagnosed with heart disease, but the tools and information are useful for anyone.
Heart valve problems are often undetected, and late detection may have severe consequences. Our mobile valve screening program offers early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of valvular heart disease.
The High Resolution Cell Imaging Core (HRCIC) Facility provides regional researchers with access to equipment and expertise in flow cytometry, high resolution imaging, histology, and analysis that enable high quality data interpretation to support grant applications and publications.
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A selection of recent news items featuring the Heart Institute and its experts.
The following are infection and hand hygiene compliance rates at the Heart Institute for the last twelve months or, for newer items, the available reporting periods.
Inpatient cardiovascular rehabilitation is a comprehensive treatment program that provides hospitalized patients at the Heart Institute with specialized care.
As a scuba diver with over 200 dives, I was wondering what the future held for me after my double valve repair in October 2021. After great work by Dr. Glineur and his team and the comprehensive rehab program, I was able to resume scuba diving.
Key policies and agreements at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.
This guide will help you and your caregiver understand and feel more comfortable with your left ventricular assist device (LVAD).
Living Well as a Caregiver is a guide designed to support caregivers of patients with cardiovascular disease.
Even though you will receive the best available care to treat and manage your heart condition, your heart disease is not curable. Heart disease is a chronic health condition that, like any health problem, can bring uncertainty and changes into your everyday life.
The purpose of this guide is to provide information about atrial fibrillation, to outline the treatment options for this condition and to provide tips on living well with atrial fibrillation.
Map and directions to find the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.