The Heart & Vascular Center at Valley View is home to a distinguished group of cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons who diagnose and treat heart and vascular diseases, including many rare and complex disorders. A multidisciplinary expert team is trained to care for many diverse conditions. Valley View offers you the widest range of treatments and the most advanced cardiac technologies on Colorado’s Western Slope. But more than that, you will find people who care about you. Our top priority is you and your heart. We are here to listen, guide and provide personalized heart care – the way it should be.
From diagnosis to treatment and recovery, our world-renowned cardiologists and thoracic surgeons embrace a collaborative approach for optimal outcomes. Dr. Frank Laws, Medical Director of the Heart & Vascular Center, and his heart team are exploring new approaches to better treat patients through the development and refinement of new technologies.
Arrhythmias of the heart such as atrial fibrillation, bradycardia, tachycardia, ventricular tachycardia, supraventricular tachycardia, and others can be easily treated in our electrophysiology lab with same day discharge. Our primary focus is the treatment of atrial fibrillation.
The Heart and Vascular Center at Valley View specializes in advanced vascular surgeries of your veins and arteries. Vascular disease can be managed through medication, minimally invasive catheter procedures or surgical reconstruction.
Common vascular procedures performed at the Heart and Vascular Center at Valley View include carotid endarterectomy; peripheral angiography; peripheral angioplasty, stent and atherectomy; abdominal aortic aneurysm repair; and limb preservation. In particular, the Heart & Vascular Center specializes in Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT).
The Heart and Vascular Center at Valley View provides complete surgical care for complex diseases of the heart, chest, lungs and esophagus.
Common cardiothoracic conditions treated at the Heart and Vascular Center at Valley View include thoracic diseases, lung cancer, esophageal cancer, Chest Wall Disease and more.
Common lung and chest procedures performed include thoracic surgery, Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS), robotic assisted thoracic surgery, cervical mediastinoscopy, open thoracic surgery, thoracotomy, and more. Furthermore, the Heart and Vascular Center is the only center on the western slope of Colorado to specialize in surgical treatment of MAZE procedure, open lung resections and aneurysms.
Let our team of skilled physicians improve your quality of life by providing you with stellar interventions for coronary artery disease.
The Heart and Vascular Center at Valley View is the only hospital in Colorado to perform robotic PCI, offer 24 hour STEMI care to perform radial PCIs, and offer same day discharge from the hospital.
The VATS MAZE procedure and Convergent approach are examples of cardiothoracic hybrid procedures that can be used to treat patients with persistent atrial fibrillation and long standing persistent atrial fibrillation.
Our Hybrid Catheterization lab offers patients a combined therapeutic surgical approach to their conditions and offers the most modern technology and the most outstanding skilled physicians there are. Diagnostic heart catheterization, percutaneous coronary intervention, robotic percutaneous coronary intervention, intra-aortic balloon pump, percutaneous left ventricular assist device (Impella) are done here. Pacemaker Implants, Implantable cardiac device implants, Biventricular pacemaker/defibrillator implants, diagnostic electrophysiology studies, Advanced radiofrequency (RF) ablations, Cryoablations, Laser ablations, Epicardial ablations are done here.
Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery – We offer treatment options via surgery to improve all vascular conditions and provide a better quality of life for all such as aneurysm repair, EVLTs, arterial bypass, vascular diagnostic imaging, and intervention. We also offer surgical treatment for conditions within the thoracic cavity such as lobectomies, lung biopsies, VATS (Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery), thoracotomies, and mediastinoscopies.
Our vision To be the destination of choice for all who aspire to heal and be healed.
Our values Respect, accountability, trust, and teamwork guide our mission every day and help us create excellence in a healthy, healing environment. Each of those values is part of our patient-centered approach to care. At Valley View, each staff member, physician, and volunteer has taken the mission of patient-centered care to heart. Decisions are made with the primary consideration of doing what’s right for the patient and their families, creating a collaborative partnership between caregivers and patients.
