Heart Care Close to Home

MyMichigan’s comprehensive Heart and Vascular Program is served by an experienced team of physicians and advanced practice providers. These include cardiologists, interventional cardiologists, electrophysiologists, heart failure and structural heart specialists, as well as vascular and cardiovascular surgeons. So, where do you go, when you need heart and vascular care? You don’t need to go far, because you have a local, go-to team ready to serve you.

Additionally, a wide variety of diagnostic cardiac and vascular tests are available locally through MyMichigan Medical Center Sault. These include CT angiography, exercise and nuclear stress tests, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiograms, electrocardiograms (EKGs), Holter monitoring, and vascular ultrasound. Should more advanced treatment become necessary, MyMichigan Medical Center Midland provides streamlined access to a full range of interventional procedures like angioplasty and stenting; structural heart procedures like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), WATCHMAN™ and transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVr); as well as advanced vascular and cardiovascular surgery. Additionally, MyMichigan Medical Center Alpena offers pacemaker implantation and diagnostic cardiac catheterization.

Scheduling an Appointment

To inquire about becoming a patient of James Armstrong, P.A.-C., at MyMichigan Cardiology, call (906) 632-5836.

Quality You Can Measure

Our commitment to comprehensive, high-quality heart and vascular care is evident throughout MyMichigan Health:

• By achieving echocardiography accreditation from the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) for at least 10 consecutive years, MyMichigan Medical Center Sault recently received a special milestone recognition for demonstrating its long-term commitment to continuously improving patient outcomes and safety.
• In 2022-2023, U.S. News & World Report Best Regional Hospitals ranked MyMichigan Medical Center Midland as high performing in the areas of heart failure, heart attack, and aortic valve surgery.
• MyMichigan Medical Center Midland has been named a Blue Distinction Center+ in Cardiac Care by Blue Cross Blue Shield
• MyMichigan Medical Center EMS in Midland and Gladwin, in collaboration with MyMichigan’s Regional STEMI Alert Program partners, have received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline® EMS Gold Award for their commitment to offering rapid and research-based care to people experiencing the most severe form of heart attacks and strokes, ultimately saving lives. This is the ninth consecutive year MyMichigan has been recognized.
• MyMichigan Medical Center Midland was one of two hospitals in Michigan and 240 in the nation to receive the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry™ Performance Achievement Platinum Award. The award honors hospitals for their consistency in meeting patient care guidelines for heart attack patients. 
• MyMichigan’s Vascular Ultrasound Lab is accredited by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) and has been since 1997.
• Our team of three board certified vascular surgeons performs more than 402 limb saving procedures annually.
• MyMichigan’s Heart Failure Clinic carries an active census of 2,194 patients across seven clinic sites.
• Our experienced structural heart team performed 136 TAVR procedures, 102 Watchman procedures, and 38 MitraClip procedures, in 2022.
• Our cardiovascular team performed 1,725 cath lab procedures, 1,962 electrophysiology procedures and 215 open heart procedures, in 2022.

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