Prior to 1987 there had not been a similar program in the intermountain region. The program has grown considerably. Full-day clinics are held twice monthly to evaluate new patients and follow existing patients. A physician's assistant, Charles King, has special experience in counseling patients with congenital heart disease and helps facilitate much of the specialized care, counseling and follow up needed. Referrals to the clinic come primarily from pediatric cardiologists, adult cardiologists, internists, and family practitioners.
Referrals come from Utah and the surrounding intermountain states.
A full range of interventional, non-invasive and surgical services are available. Family Lipid Clinic Preventive cardiology is stressed in all of the Cardiology Division's inpatient and outpatient services. In addition, the division has a cardiac risk reduction clinic under the direction of Dr. Paul N. Hopkins. This clinic focuses primarily on evaluation and management of lipid disorders but stresses exercise, weight reduction, hypertension control and smoking cessation as well. Consultation with a dietician is an integral part of this cardiovascular risk reduction program.