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The Norton Heart & Vascular Institute Advanced Heart Failure & Recovery Program’s Audubon offices are located at Norton Medical Plaza West on the campus of Norton Audubon Hospital.

Valet parking is available at the hospital entrance. Garage and surface parking are located across from the entrance to the medical plaza and behind the building.

TARC Route 27 stops on Audubon Plaza Drive.

Recovering From Heart Failure

Heart failure recovery is possible. The specialists at the Norton Heart & Vascular Institute Advanced Heart Failure & Recovery Program prove it every day.

For patients whose heart failure wasn’t caused by blockages or heart attack, we cure more than 50% of heart failure cases with medication when we can treat it early. Nationally, the benchmark is 10%.

Even patients with advanced heart failure are finding they can recover enough to return to living their lives with ventricular assist devices that often make heart transplants unnecessary.

Restoring efficiency to your heart and recovering from heart failure may take several months of medication and close monitoring with remote sensors and office visits. If medication isn’t bringing about recovery and your heart failure progresses, we will talk about advanced heart failure therapies that may provide additional options.

Heart Failure Care Designed for Heart Recovery

  • Same-day appointments are available for new patients at locations in downtown Louisville and on the campuses of Norton Audubon Hospital and Norton Brownsboro Hospital.
  • Our compassionate and dedicated team includes specially trained heart failure cardiologists and advanced practice providers, a social worker, nurse navigators and dedicated pharmacist to help create a custom plan for care and make sure you and your family’s questions are answered at every step.
  • When diagnosed promptly, more than 50% of patients with heart failure that wasn’t caused by heart attacks or blockages are cured, compared with about 10% nationally.
  • Our program has advanced heart failure monitoring technology to detect signs of a weakening heart before you feel symptoms, with a goal of preventing hospital stays.
  • We are a DNV-accredited provider of ventricular assist devices and are recognized as High Performing in Heart Failure by U.S. News & World Report.
  • Our advanced care for severe heart failure includes ventricular assist device implants, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support to give your heart a rest and time to heal, and access to heart transplants with ongoing aftercare.
  • The ECMO programs at Norton Heart & Vascular Institute and Norton Children’s Heart Institute are each recognized by the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) as gold-level centers of excellence. As ELSO centers of excellence, the programs’ processes, procedures and systems promote excellence and exceptional ECMO care.
  • Medicare, Medicaid and most major commercial insurance plans are accepted.
  • Book appointments, get alerts when an earlier appointment becomes available, communicate with your medical provider, refill prescriptions and more through your free Norton MyChart account.