History of Heart & Vascular Innovation at Cone Health
One of the most important and significant contributions to the nation and world that has come from Greensboro is today’s global standard of care for the treatment of heart attacks. The combined use of balloon angioplasty, stents and fast emergency response procedures that Greensboro cardiologists helped to prove to be more effective than current treatments and successfully advocated for as today’s global standard of care has saved millions of lives since the 1980s. Learn more about this pioneering work here.
A Vision for the Future
The same Cone Health cardiologists at the vanguard of life-saving innovations in the 1980s have cultivated a new team of ambitious, trailblazing physicians to build the future of heart and vascular care. With increasing rates of heart disease, diabetes, obesity and more on the horizon, today’s Cone Health heart and vascular physicians are leading a new era of care, where the prevention of heart disease is achieved through robust community partnerships and clinical trials that identify the most effective approaches to slow, stop and even reverse disease development.
For decades, our community has enjoyed the very best, most advanced heart and vascular care in the nation. The $200 million Cone Health is investing in advanced heart and vascular services is aimed at ensuring our region has the same level of expertise in care and visionary leadership for generations to come.
The Importance of Community Support
Steve and Jackie Bell
Our plans for the future are made possible by visionary families and individuals like the Steven D. Bell family, whose major gift is propelling groundbreaking research and lifesaving cardiovascular preventive care in our community, and Norman and Sylvia Samet, whose transformational gift helped kick off our major heart and vascular care expansion.
We couldn’t advance these substantial innovations in care without tremendous philanthropic support. By partnering with others in our community, we can succeed in addressing a growing heart and vascular health crisis here at home and across our world. You can join us in taking a stand to continue Cone Health’s legacy of leadership in heart and vascular care, ensuring our community continues to receive the very best care and that our region is known globally as the source for innovation and the place for some of the world’s best heart and vascular care.
Together, we will create the future of heart and vascular care.
About the Cone Health Heart & Vascular Center
Cone Health is nationally recognized for heart and vascular care. Our quality begins with outstanding physicians and care teams deeply committed to their patients. These providers are expanding traditions of excellence and innovation that are hallmarks of cardiovascular care at Cone Health. From groundbreaking innovations in heart attack care in the 1980s and ’90s to today’s AI-driven diagnostic imaging, minimally invasive surgery options and proactive approaches to prevent heart disease, our focus on what’s best for patients continues to place us at the forefront of heart and vascular care.
Because of our commitment to constant innovation to achieve the best possible patient outcomes, we attract top talent and have assembled a truly remarkable cardiovascular care team. From prevention to acute care, our world-class physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses and staff are here for you.
Cone Health heart and vascular imaging teams are national leaders in the early detection of heart and vascular disease, using AI-driven, 3D imaging that shows precisely the degree of disease development in vessels and the exact intervention needed. As one of the most active sites for cardiovascular clinical trials, patient-centered heart and vascular innovation is in the DNA of the Cone Health Heart & Vascular Center, leading most recently to the first-in-man procedure for a new electrophysiological treatment for heart failure.
Learn more about heart and vascular care at Cone Health here.
