Northside Heart

Bringing Quality Cardiology Care Close to Home

By Cyndi Braun

Northside Hearts Woodstock office provides convenience and quality care to residents who live on the southern end of Cherokee County.

Northside Heart is one of the largest cardiology practices in the north Atlanta area, with locations in Alpharetta, Atlanta, Canton, Cumming, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Suwanee/Johns Creek and Woodstock.

Physicians treat a wide range of cardiovascular disease. They are board-certified in cardiovascular disease, nuclear and interventional cardiology.

Full-Service Cardiology in Woodstock
The Woodstock location is a full-service cardiology office, which means patients may receive preventative medicine care, diagnostic procedures and cardiac electrophysiology evaluations.

We evaluate and treat people with all forms of cardiovascular disease, said Dr. Thomas Jordan, who is one of six physicians seeing patients in Woodstock. That includes something as basic as high blood pressure, which is the most common medical problem that any physician sees, to complex congenital heart disease.

Patients visit the Woodstock location for routine exams and diagnostic testing such as EKGs, echocardiograms, rhythm monitoring, nuclear and non-nuclear stress tests.

With Northside Hospital Cherokee in Canton and Northside Heart in Woodstock, you have Atlanta-based physicians here in your community, said Patricia Tyson, administrative director for the Northside Hospital Heart and Vascular Institute.

Partnering for Your Care
Northside Heart formed in 2016 after Cardiovascular Physicians of North Atlanta and Northside Cardiology, two well-respected cardiology groups, partnered to serve the communities throughout greater Atlanta with the highest standard of cardiovascular care. Northside Heart now brings together a team of sixteen cardiologists and eight locations, with a newly-opened office in Canton and an additional office in Marietta opening in the coming months.

With so many doctors on staff, the practice is committed to offering patients something smaller practices cannot collaboration with other highly experienced members of the team. Doctors consult with each other to provide the best possible care for patients.

When we have complex patients, well talk to other doctors in the practice, and theyll talk to us about their patients. We always end up learning something. Everyone gets along well, so we can get other opinions, share our own and help each other. At the end of the day, the patient really benefits from the experience of all the doctors, said Dr. Gordon Azar, who also sees patients in Woodstock.

Compassionate, Quality Care
At each of the locations, Northside Hearts physicians hold the belief that they should not just care for patients; they should care about them.

From office personnel to technicians, nurses, medical assistants and the rest of the medical team, the practice is committed to patient-centered care. Some patients have been with the practice so long that they have become like family.

Ive seen patients now for almost 25 years, who Ive seen since day one. They keep coming back, and thats a great part of this type of practice. You can do all these procedures, and then you get to know the people, and learn about them and their families, and see them over the years, said Dr. Jordan. You dont just do one procedure, and never see them again; you are taking care of them for the duration.

Northside Heart is committed to making sure patients get quality time with the physicians. Doctors spend as much time as needed with each patient to conduct a thorough exam and to get to know them as well as address any concerns that the patient may have.

Good News About Heart Disease
In the past fifty years, death rates due to cardiovascular disease have declined significantly. This decline has been attributed to a variety of factors including advances in treating heart disease, better medications for high blood pressure and high cholesterol and the existence of cardiac care units such as those at Northside Hospital. In fact, all three Northside Hospitals have been recognized by the American Heart Association as providing gold standard cardiovascular care.

Cardiovascular disease is actually one of the few diseases where the mortality is going down. There are more people with cardiac problems, but the number of people dying from heart disease has actually gone down compared to most other diseases, said Dr. Jordan. Weve really done well in helping control risk factors, improving patients lives, getting them to live longer and hopefully better, too.

Patients who have risk factors for heart disease or have already been diagnosed should monitor and treat their condition with the assistance of cardiologists such as those at Northside Heart.

Northside Heart- Woodstock
900 Towne Lake Parkway, Suite 400, Woodstock
770-924-5095
NorthsideHeart.com