Welcome to the Heart Failure Clinic at the Good Health Center
The Heart Failure clinic at the Good Health Center located at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital manages patients with heart failure at all stages through multiple services in the outpatient setting. We specialize in the full range of heart failure—from new onset to advanced stages.
Our primary goals are to help improve our patients’ quality of life through education, optimizing their medications, and helping them maintain a healthy lifestyle. The heart failure clinic at the Good Health Center does this through a multidisciplinary approach including heart failure providers, nurses, pharmacists, and community health advocates. Other services include cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation and a dietitian.
Benefits of the Heart Failure Clinic at the Good Health Center
- All patients are seen and evaluated by a heart failure-trained provider with an Advanced Heart Failure cardiologist available for additional consultation.
- All patients may bring one guest to accompany them to their appointment.
- Free gym membership (with medical clearance) at the Good Health Center.
- Monthly heart failure support group on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 1:30-3pm (current and past heart failure patients) run by a licensed clinical social worker.
A referral may be required
To be seen at the Heart Failure Clinic, you need to have a referral. This can include:
- A referral from your cardiologist
- A referral upon hospital discharge from any inpatient team
What can I expect during my visit?
Each visit is approximately 60-90 minutes depending on your needs at the time of the visit. We offer a comfortable environment for receiving care.
Newly diagnosed with heart failure
During your first visit, you will meet with one of our advanced heart failure physicians to develop a plan to manage your heart failure. You will also have an EKG, get lab work done, a medication review, and your fluids checked.
You will also be provided with multiple tools to help manage your heart failure including:
- Scale to weigh yourself daily
- 32 oz containers to measure your liquid intake
- compression stockingsblood pressure log to record your blood pressure
- weight log to record your weight and note any significant gains or losses
Follow up visits
After your initial visit, you and your provider will determine how often you should visit the Good Health Center.
During a regularly scheduled follow up visit, your provider may do the following:
- recheck your lab work
- review, adjust and/or prescribe your medications
- check your fluid
- optimize your medications
- administer IV diuretics (if necessary)
- schedule your next appointment
Urgent (unscheduled visits)
While we prefer you make an appointment, we understand the need for an urgent appointment to avoid an Emergency Room visit.
This visit will be focused on your acute needs and will most likely include IV diuretics to help you quickly get rid of excess fluid. The heart failure provider will make a plan specifically for you and to avoid a hospitalization.
Our providers
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Sopagna Banh, PA
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Shital Gandhi, MS
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Sandeep M Jani, MD
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Samer Samir Najjar, MD
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Weining David Xu, MD
Heart Failure And Transplantation Cardiology
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Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.