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The CardioVascular Center at Tufts Medical Center
has joined forces with The Heart Center of MetroWest
to keep community hearts healthy
An Affiliation You Can Take to Heart
Tufts Medical Center and The Heart Center of MetroWest (HCMW) share a firm dedication and commitment to providing patients with outstanding cardiac care. As a result, we’ve formed a partnership that gives the MetroWest community convenient access to the most cutting-edge cardiovascular services and treatments, including pre and post cardiac surgery care, right in the MetroWest community.
For current HCMW patients, everything will remain the same – only better. They will continue to see their same excellent HCMW cardiologists and most procedures will still take place at MetroWest Medical Center, but now these patients will also have seamless access to Tufts Medical Center’s renowned cardiac surgeons and the state-of-the-art facilities of our CardioVascular Center, when needed.
HCMW and Tufts MC are excited to work together to advance cardiovascular care in the MetroWest region, while ensuring that receiving care is as coordinated and convenient as possible for these valued patients.
Expanded Care for HCMW Patients
HCMW will continue to offer extensive cardiology services, including advanced cardiac imaging, cardiac rehabilitation, electrophysiology, cardiac catheterization, echocardiography and advanced diagnostic testing and imaging. But in some complex and progressed cases, patients might also need access to a cardiac surgeon or leading-edge technologies.
That’s where this partnership comes in. HCMW cardiologists will work side by side with Tufts Medical Center cardiac surgeons to ensure patients receive the most sophisticated care available. In some cases an HCMW physician may perform a more complicated procedure at Tufts Medical Center’s CardioVascular Center or if a bypass surgery or a heart transplant is required, that surgery will also take place in Boston. All other services will be brought right to patients, in MetroWest.
Expert Tufts Medical Center cardiac surgeon Duc Thinh Pham, MD, Surgical Director of the Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Clinic, will provide weekly pre and post-surgical consultative sessions for HCMW patients in Framingham, saving patients the drive to Boston. Having the surgeon onsite is not only convenient, but also ensures that the patient and his/her family members can have all their questions and concerns addressed in the comfort of the HCMW offices.
These expanded benefits mean that MetroWest patients will have the finest experts in a wide variety of specialties at their service, providing exactly the care required, when it’s needed.
Tufts MC Nationally Recognized for Quality and Safety
Tufts Medical Center is not new to the MetroWest region. HCMW’s relationship with Tufts MC builds on an already robust adult and pediatric affiliation with MetroWest Medical Center. Many families in the region have already benefited from the comprehensive relationship the two medical centers have developed since 2009. HCMW and MWMC both chose Tufts Medical Center as an academic medical center partner for its unwavering focus on patients and its dedication to the highest quality of care and patient outcomes.
About The Heart Center of MetroWest
The Heart Center of Metro West is a non-profit, 12-cardiologist specialty practice group with office locations in Framingham, Natick, Medway and Marlborough. The largest cardiology group in the MetroWest area and one of the largest in the state of Massachusetts, The Heart Center of MetroWest offers state of the art cardiovascular care through an extensive range of services, including advanced cardiac imaging and diagnostic testing, cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology. For more information, please visit www.hcmw.com.
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