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“We start by looking at what the best approach is overall and ensuring our hospitals offer the right care at the right time and in the right place,” he said. “Then we tailor our standard approach, as needed, to the unique needs of each individual patient.”
The team achieves this, said Dr. Garratt, by serving together.
“With heart failure, we pursued collaboration across different areas with great deliberation and to great advantage and success,” he said. “Our heart failure team meets regularly with nutritionists, psychologists and occupational health therapists—a gamut of health providers not necessarily dedicated to cardiovascular work but who complement what we do.”
As a result, there is a decline in mortality rates and readmissions, as well as an increase in use of optimal, or guideline-recommended, medical therapy.
In the end, he said, it all goes back to serving patients with excellence and love.
“Our Center for Heart & Vascular Health is the largest, most comprehensive in the state of Delaware,” Dr. Garratt said. “We’re proud to provide the services our neighbors need, and we do so with compassion and respect. Any advancements we make are for the health of the people we serve and the communities we’re all part of.” 
The power of Excellence & Love
Celebrating the opening of the Gerret and Tatiana Copeland Heart & Vascular Interventional Suite at Christiana Hospital are (from left) Kirk Garratt, M.D., M.Sc., medical director of the Center for Heart & Vascular Health; Timothy Gardner, M.D., the center’s past medical director; Gerrett Copeland; Tatiana Copeland; President and CEO Janice Nevin, M.D., MPH; Board Chair Doneene Keemer Damon, Esq.
Gerret and Tatiana Copeland’s hearts are full of love for Christiana Care. The couple’s generous gift to the Center for Heart & Vascular Health supported the Gerret and Tatiana Copeland Heart & Vascular Interventional Suite, including the new Hybrid Operating Room at Christiana Hospital.
“The visionary gifts the Copelands have bestowed upon Christiana Care over the years, including the Center for Heart & Vascular Health, allow us to bring new standards of care that will serve
our community in 2019 and for years to come,” said Kirk Garratt, M.D., M.Sc., medical director of Christiana Care’s Center for Heart & Vascular Health. “We are incredibly grateful for their partnership.”
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