Cardio Services

Hilton Head Regional Healthcare is dedicated to providing our local community and visitors with compassionate, quality, extraordinary care close to home. We offer services from diagnosis to treatment and rehabilitation.

Heart Care Treatments

General categories of treatment include

Anticoagulation medications (blood thinners) or aspirin to help prevent stroke
Medications to slow the heartbeat, like beta-blockers and calcium channel blockers
Medications (antiarrhythmics) to help prevent atrial fibrillation (AFib)
Treatment for the main cause of AFib, if known
Medications to treat heart failure (if present), like ACE inhibitors
Electrocardioversion
Catheter ablation
Maze surgery

Helping You Navigate Your Healthcare Journey

Anticoagulation Clinic

If you are taking warfarin, a blood-thinning medication that can help prevent blood clots or strokes, it’s very important that we help you find the right dosage and that you get regular checkups to make sure it’s working properly. That’s why the Hilton Head Regional Healthcare Anticoagulation Clinic is dedicated to monitoring and managing patients who take warfarin.

Diabetes Self-Management Program

Diabetes management is important for people with heart disease. The two conditions are often concurrent. Successful diabetes management can help you feel better and may reduce the risk of problems that can occur from diabetes. Hilton Head Regional Healthcare's goal is to help people live a healthy and full life and that is why we offer our Diabetes Self-Management Program at our Hilton Head Hospital location.

Our outpatient program can teach you how to manage diabetes by providing guidance about

Balanced nutrition
Meal planning and carbohydrate counting
Physical activity
Stress management
Behavior change strategies, goal setting and problem solving
Injectable diabetes medication (when prescribed)
Monitoring and controlling blood glucose
Preventing/Managing short- and long-term complications
Local and national diabetes resources

Advanced topics

Insulin pump training
Continuous Glucose Monitor training

Cardiac Rehab

If you had treatment or surgery to improve your heart health, you need to work to keep it in good shape by taking part in cardiac rehabilitation. Cardiac rehab may help you live longer and feel healthier, and our therapists will support you every step of the way.

This three-phase program will help you rebuild your physiological, psychological, social and emotional wellbeing, and it includes