Heart Care

Continuum of heart care

During a heart attack, heart muscle is lost by the minute. If blood is not restored to the heart quickly, it can lead to irreversible damage to the heart. Limiting such damage requires quickly opening the blocked coronary artery to restore the flow of oxygen-rich blood to the cells of the heart muscle.

That’s when Tanner’s full continuum of world-class heart care—including 24-hour emergency departments at three hospitals, a Heart Alert system, and the expert staff and technology of Tanner Heart and Vascular Center—truly makes a difference. At Tanner, we save hearts and change lives every day.

The following cardiac services, procedures and tests are performed at Tanner Heart and Vascular Center:

• Cardioversion
• Calcium scoring CT scanning
• Cardiac PET
• Diagnostic and interventional peripheral angiography
• Diagnostic and interventional coronary angiography
• Electrocardiograms (EKGs)
• Echocardiography (cardiac ultrasound)
• Electrophysiology services
  • Ablations
    • Supraventricular Tachycardias including atrial flutter, AVNRT,WPW, atrial tachycardia
    • Ventricular Tachycardia
    • Premature Ventricular Contractions
  • Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) Device implantation and follow-up
  • Electrophysiology (EP) testing (invasive and noninvasive)
  • Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillation (ICD) implantation
  • Loop recorder implantation/extraction
• Event monitors
• Heart catheterization
• Holter monitor
• Noninvasive vascular studies
• Pediatric echocardiogram
• Permanent pacemaker implantation
• Stress tests
• Temporary pacemaker insertion
• Tilt table testing
• Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE)
• Stress echocardiogram
• Stress cardiac nuclear medicine (thallium cardiac imaging)

Tanner Heart and Vascular Center
705 Dixie Street, Carrollton, GA 30117
Located inside Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton
Map It!

Main Phone: 770.836.9666

• To schedule an appointment for a procedure or test at the Tanner Heart and Vascular Center at Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, have a physician’s order ready and call Tanner Central Scheduling at 770.836.9721.
• If you need a cardiologist, call Tanner’s physician referral hotline at 770.214.CARE or choose Find a Doctor to search Tanner's medical staff.
• If you plan to visit a patient in the CPCU or the ICU, learn more about our visiting hours.

For information on cardiac services at each hospital, call:

Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton: 770.836.9559

Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica: 770.456.3169

Higgins General Hospital: 770.824.2201

Tanner Health System takes pride in providing our community with quality health care. We also believe in transparency when it comes to our quality measures.

The following Tanner quality measures are available online:

• Core Measures for heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care
• Patient Safety for infection prevention, medicine errors and patient falls
• Patient Satisfaction for ambulatory surgery, emergency room, inpatient and outpatient
• Cardiac Care for door-to-EKG time, aspirin given at arrival, door-to-balloon time and successful stent procedures

Learn more about how Tanner compares locally and nationally.