Heart Health
This lifestyle habit, recommended for at least 150 per minutes per week, can significantly reduce the risk of heart disease.
What is regular exercise?
This condition, often caused by coronary artery disease, results in chest pain due to reduced blood flow to the heart.
What is angina?
Sutter Health is one of the largest not-for-profit heath systems in the nation, serving this number of people each year across our hospital and ambulatory care network.
What is 3.5 million people?
What is heart failure with preserved ejection fraction?
The Kanbar Center opened its door in September 2004 at this location, combining EKGs, treadmill tests, stress echo tests, cardiac catheterization laboratories, and a new state-of-the-art electrophysiology lab.
CPMC Pacific Heights Campus
This type of cholesterol is considered "good" because it helps remove bad cholesterol from the bloodstream.
What is HDL?
This ingredient in cigarettes and e-cigarretes has been shown to increase the risk heart attacks and strokes.
What is nicotine?
This Mission statement prioritizes Sutter Health's commitment to our patients.
What is "Caring for our patients first and our people always."
This class of drug was originally developed and tested in patients with diabetes but has now been shown to reduce the risk of heart failure hospitalization and cardiovascular death across the entire spectrum of heart failure.
What are SGLT-2 inhibitors?
Maurice Kanbar was a prolific inventor, developing the D-Fuzz-It lint remover at the age of 21 and holding more than 50 patents on inventions ranging from a hypodermic needle protector to children's games. However, he is best known for creating this spirit brand in 1992, which involved a unique distillation and filtration processes to remove impurities from the alcohol.
SKYY Vodka?
This risk factor for heart disease is linked to higher "bad" cholesterol and triglyceride levels, lower "good" cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, and diabetes.
This class of medications is commonly prescribed to people with coronary artery disease to lower cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart attack.
What are statins?
Sutter Health's expansive footprint in Northern California encompasses these 5 operating Divisions.
What are Greater SF, Greater Silicon Valley, Greater Sacramento, Greater East Bay, Greater Central Valley, and Greater Central Coast Divisions?
This organ recovery and preservation technology was featured in the popular series, "Grey's Anatomy," which aired on November 3, 2011.
What is Heart in a Box or Ex-Vivo Perfusion?
10 East was given this name in 2022 to recognize the expert cardiovascular nursing care delivered and to highlight its role as part of the Kanbar Center.
Kanbar Cardiac Care Unit
In patients without a history of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, LDL cholesterol levels below this target are considered ideal.
100 mg/dL
This test records the electrical activity of the heart over a period up to 14 days and is often used to diagnose arrhythmias.
What is a Holter monitor?
Together, these 6 hospital campuses within Sutter's Greater SF Division offer comprehensive acute care services ranging from general medicine to organ transplantation.
What are the CPMC VNC, Davies campus, MBC, Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital, Sutter Lakeside Hospital, and Novato Community Hospital?
These four classes of drugs are referred to as the "four pillars" of medical therapy for patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (LVEF ≤ 40%).
What are angiotensin receptor/neprislysin inhibitors (ARNI), beta-blockers, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists, and SGLT-2 inhibitors?
Outpatient cardiac rehabilitation, a key part of the recovery process after cardiac surgery, heart attacks, and in patients with heart failure, and part of the Kanbar Center's services, is offered at this CPMC location.
CPMC Mission Bernal Campus
According to the most recent guidelines, patients are considered to have Stage 1 hypertension if they have two or more readings at or above this value, over two separate occasions.
This procedure involves the insertion of a catheter into the heart to diagnose and treat arrhythmias by delivering energy to specific areas of the heart.
What is ablation?
Sutter Health offers accredited residency programs in 7 specialties, including these four....
What are anesthesiology (Roseville), family medicine (Sacramento, Davis, Amador, Modesto), internal medicine (Oakland, Modesto, Roseville, San Francisco), ophthalmology (San Francisco), emergency medicine (Roseville), psychiatry (San Francisco), and surgery (Roseville)?
As part of the Heart Failure Care Pathway, Sutter Health hospitals are encouraged to implement 10 key processes for patients admitted with acute, or decompensated heart failure, including these 5....
What are:
1. Identifying patients with acute heart failure as the primary reason for hospitalization.
2. Assess and document LVEF if not done in the previous 6 months
3. Treat patients with evidence of fluid retention with loop diuretics.
4. Discharge eligible patients on an SGLT-2 inhibitor regardless of LVEF.
5. Discharge eligible patients with an LVEF ≤40% on an ARNI, beta-blocker, MRA, and SGLT-2 inhibitor.
6. Provide patient education regarding self-care strategies, medication management, and recognizing signs and symptoms of decompensation.
7. Identify and address social drivers of health.
8. Consult a pharmacist to perform an accurate medication reconciliation on admission and at discharge and to assist with initiation/titration of GDMT and access to medications.
9. Provide patients with waring signs of decompensation and whom to contact after discharge.
10. Arrange for a telephonic "touch point" within 2 business days of discharge and follow-up appointment within 7 days of discharge.
IDEO, an international design and innovation firm, worked with CPMC in 2024 to make our patients' interactions with the Kanbar Center feel like a cohesive, comprehensive care experience. They identified these 6 principles (name one) to elevate the patient experience.
1. Trust building.
2. Reliable information.
3. Empowered orientation.
4. Transparency.
5. Elevating emotions.
6. Unified Kanbar team.
This class of medications works by mimicking the action of a natural hormone in the body and is generally prescribed to help control blood sugar, promote weight loss, and reduce the risk of major heart events like heart attacks and strokes in patients with Type 2 diabetes and existing heart disease.
What are GLP-1 agonists?