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Providers and quality

Whether you are looking for a new provider or are new to heart and vascular conditions and need to gain an understanding of what we do, know that Beacon’s Heart, Vascular and Stroke team is a local leader delivering services that compete with national providers.

 

Heart, Vascular and Stroke team

Our providers – cardiologists, heart surgeons, vascular surgeons, vascular interventional radiologists, stroke specialists, heart failure team and electrophysiologists – perform many procedures to help you get back on track.

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Mayo Clinic Care Network

The Mayo Clinic Care Network is a clinical collaboration between Mayo Clinic and independent health care organizations across the globe. Beacon is the first organization in Indiana to be selected as a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. You benefit from this relationship, because this network provides Beacon doctors with special access to Mayo Clinic knowledge, resources, specialty teams, second opinions and more.

Read about our Mayo collaboration.

Cardiologists

Trust your heart and health to Beacon’s multidisciplinary team of cardiologists who have extensive experience with advanced technology and deliver compassionate, coordinated care.

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Heart surgeons

Our highly trained, board-certified heart and lung surgical team helps save and improve the quality of lives with advanced surgical treatments, available in Elkhart and South Bend.

Find a heart surgeon

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Vascular surgeons

Beacon’s vascular surgeons are trained specialists who treat a variety of issues and diseases that affect your blood vessels, arteries and veins.

Meet the team

Vascular interventional radiologists

For less pain, fewer complications and quicker recovery, interventional radiologists use guided devices to treat heart and vascular conditions with minimally invasive treatment options.

Learn more about interventional radiologist

Stroke specialists

Beacon’s stroke care team treats you from the moment you arrive in the emergency room. Our team is with you when you are admitted as a patient, as you go through recovery and rehabilitation and even after you leave the hospital.

Learn about stroke care

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Heart failure team

Our Heart, Vascular & Stroke team treats, heals and helps people with experiencing heart failure, which can make you tired, weak and mentally less alert.

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Electrophysiologists

Beacon’s electrophysiology service providers use the latest technology to help treat heart arrhythmia and Atrial fibrillation (AFib) to correct disturbances in the heart’s electrical system.

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Coordinators

For help in coordinating your care for a heart, vascular stroke condition, our dedicated team is here for you. These vital members of the heart care team act as advocates for patients and their families, identifying and removing any obstacles to care – and serve as a familiar face throughout each patient’s heart care journey.

Structural Heart Coordinators 

  • Diana Hojara, BSN, RN, 574-647-7012
  • Mary E. Miller MSN, RN, 574-389-4889
  • Andrea B.C. Williams, BSN, RN, 574-523-3143

Open Heart Coordinators 

  • Sue Stack, Elkhart General Hospital
  • Morgan Marlow, Elkhart General Hospital
  • Andrea Cummins, Memorial Hospital of South Bend
  • Jackie St. Thomas, Memorial Hospital of South Bend

Vascular coordinators  

  • Rachel Renner 

Stroke navigators  

  • Sarah Shreve
  • Rebecca Emery
  • Danielle Cavender
  • Kyle Berry

Accolades

We are proud to have so many services to offer the community – like the region’s first structural heart program, performing TAVR since 2014, the region’s first and only thrombectomy-capable stroke center.

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