Heart Services

In northern Michigan, distances between people and the services they need sometimes seem overwhelming. For nearly a decade, the physicians and hospitals of the Heart Network have worked to overcome this obstacle and provide exceptional cardiac care to patients from 24 counties. Together, they have developed a nationally recognized program that links primary care physicians, internal medicine physicians, cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, community hospitals, and the services of Munson Medical Center. The Heart Network's cardiothoracic surgeons are among the best in the country, specializing in surgery of the chest including the heart, great vessels, and lungs.

The physician and hospital partners of the Heart Network have sought excellence and achieved it. Munson has one of the few programs in the country to repeatedly achieve a Top 100 Hospital rating in both angioplasty and bypass — and is one of only six hospitals to achieve overall Top 100 Hospital status during the same years.

The Network's cardiologists see patients in Alpena, Cadillac, Frankfort, Grayling, Kalkaska, Prudenville, and Traverse City. More than 300 cardiac catheterization procedures take place annually within a mobile unit, which regularly visits hospitals throughout the region.

In addition, preventive education and care, patient education, and rehabilitation are offered through physicians and hospitals in many local communities. For more information on cardiac services and procedures offered through the Heart Network, click here.

If you are a Munson Healthcare patient and have a compliment, concern, or complaint, please contact one of our Patient Liaisons.

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