Heart Care
Heart care at Merit Health Wesley focuses on the functions and disorders of the heart and its connected circulatory system. According to the American Heart Association, 84 million people in the U.S. suffer from some form of cardiovascular disease, affecting blood flow throughout the body. Cardiovascular disease can lead to heart attacks, strokes or other serious complications.
Taking good care of your heart can help reduce your risk of developing heart disease that leads to a heart attack, stroke or other serious complications. Our cardiac care teams provide complete heart care services - from helping you create a heart-healthy lifestyle to performing potentially lifesaving procedures in emergency situations.
One of the ways you can help prevent heart disease is by knowing your risk factors. Take the American Heart Association's Heart Risk Assessment to learn if you could be at risk and discuss the results with your doctor.
Patient Education
Understanding Blood Pressure
Understand Atrial Fibrillation
Merit Health Wesley provides cardiac care through several area clinics to better serve you, including:
Award Winning Care
Merit Health Wesley is Hattiesburg’s first and only Accredited Chest Pain Center and the only hospital with accredited Heart Failure care.
We have continuously been recognized as a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures by The Joint Commission - a distinction held by hospitals who exhibit high performance in four primary categories: heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care
Merit Health Wesley has also received the Get With the Guidelines - Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for 2017 from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association for achieving at least two years of 85% or higher adherence to all "Get With the Guidelines" program quality indicators to improve quality of patient care and outcomes.