As the only hospital in San Diego with a dedicated women’s acute cardiac care unit located within a women’s-only hospital — Sharp Grossmont Hospital for Women & Newborns — our specialized team in the women’s acute cardiac care unit provides inpatient cardiovascular services designed for a woman’s unique physiology. When it comes to your recovery, rest assured that you will heal in a nurturing environment by nurses trained in women’s heart issues.

Along with caring for women's hearts while in the hospital, we also offer outpatient services. For instance, our Postpartum Heart Health Clinic located within the Burr Heart & Lung Clinic helps women experiencing high blood pressure and other cardiovascular complications after pregnancy. The clinic's expert team provides education and counseling on nutrition, lifestyle changes, and how to monitor blood pressure at home.

Our heart failure program includes both inpatient care and treatment, as well as care after you leave the hospital at our Heart Failure Clinic. The clinic offers immediate, post-discharge care as a bridge to the follow-up care from your cardiologist or primary care physician. The Heart Failure Clinic is located in the Burr Heart & Lung Clinic at Sharp Grossmont Hospital. Heart Failure Clinic services include physical exams and making sure medications are up-to-date. Patients living with heart failure can also take advantage of our heart failure support groups, which meet regularly to discuss various topics from exercising safely to following a heart-healthy diet.

At the Burr Heart & Vascular Center, our biplane cardiac catheterization lab is primarily used for complex neurological (stroke), cardiac and interventional radiology. Biplane imaging technology uses two fluoroscopy cameras to produce simultaneous images at different angles, giving physicians increased precision.

Our electrophysiology cardiac catheterization lab is used primarily to treat abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmia), including atrial fibrillation. The room is equipped with three-dimensional mapping technology to detect irregular heart rhythms.

One of two standard cardiac catheterization labs is primarily used for heart procedures, including catheter placement, coronary interventions and acute myocardial infarctions (heart attacks). Physicians also perform peripheral vascular angiograms and pacemaker implantations in this room.

The second standard catheterization lab is used primarily for standard diagnostic, interventional and electrophysiology procedures.

The hybrid operating room is used primarily for cardiovascular surgery, neurosurgery, thoracic surgery and lung procedures. A hybrid operating room (OR) has added imaging that makes it possible for doctors to simultaneously diagnosis and treat the patient when surgery is needed. Hybrid ORs can immediately convert to open surgery from minimally invasive if necessary.

Vascular conditions typically treated in the endovascular hybrid surgical suite include abdominal aortic aneurysms, carotid artery disease, deep vein thrombosis, varicose veins and other types of blockages. Transcarotid arterial revascularization (TCAR) procedures are also performed in this room.

Our expert team of cardiac specialists will perform open-heart procedures in our cardiothoracic surgery suite, including cardiac bypass surgery, valve replacement, valve repair and lead extraction.