To refer a patient, please call us: (541) 686-7218 within the local calling area of Eugene - Springfield (888) 240-6484 toll-free To refer a patient directly to the Heart Failure Center at OHVI, please call: Heart Failure Center direct line: (541) 335-2789

Heart Failure Center

Current thinking and extensive clinical practice have identified congestive heart failure as a condition that benefits significantly from a disease management approach, utilizing a multidisciplinary provider and care team. With the goal of improving morbidity and mortality from heart failure, reducing hospital admissions, and improving quality of life for our patients, this center has been designed to implement a treatment and prevention program for congestive heart failure of any cause and will offer consultations designed to help in the management of your heart failure patients.

We anticipate that patients will be referred to the Heart Failure Center from a number of settings; from the hospital at the time of discharge, from the emergency room, and from physicians’ offices. It is our desire to tailor the consultations to fit the needs and desires of you, the referring physician, and your patients.

For example, if you desire increased heart failure self-management instructions, one-on-one teaching, collaboration on the care of your patient, a one-time consultation for management advice, or a more complete evaluation about the patient’s heart failure and its causes, including the initiation of a treatment program and stabilization before referral back to your practice, these will all be provided.

This Consult Request form (PDF file) can be used to request referral to the Heart Failure Center and can be filled out with patient specific information and the type of consultation requested. Simply fax this with pertinent medical records to us, and we will set up an appointment time with the patient. We anticipate that patients will be scheduled within the first week or two of contact.

We trust that this service will be beneficial to you and to your patients, as we all try to treat an increasingly complicated management problem and apply the ever-changing therapies that are becoming available to treat heart failure.

Please call us at (541) 335-2789 if you have any questions, suggestions or comments.