Nursing's impact is reflected through highly specialized patient and family centered care offered in ambulatory settings, clinics, diagnostic and interventional services, operating rooms or specialized inpatient units.
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Heart Center
55 Fruit StreetBoston, MA 02114
Phone: 866-MGH-8910
Public Transportation Access: yes
Disabled Access: yes
Inpatient Cardiac Nursing
Inpatient nursing at the Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center is made up of seven nursing units. Each unit is staffed with an expert nursing team that specializes in a particular aspect of cardiac care.
Cardiac inpatient units include:
- Ellison 11 Cardiac Interventional Unit
- Ellison 10 Cardiac Step Down Unit
- Ellison 9 Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
- Blake 9 Knight Center for Interventional Cardiovascular Therapy
- Blake 8 Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Unit
- Ellison 8 Cardiac Surgical Step Down Unit
- GRB 109 Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and Electrophysiology Lab
Outpatient Cardiac Nursing
Nurses are a central part of outpatient care at the Heart Center. Nursing staff serve as liaisons and educators for new patients entering the Heart Center. For example, the Outpatient Cardiac Access Nurse is the primary facilitator between patients or referring physicians and the Heart Center and ensures a timely appointment with the most appropriate physician or specialty care service.
Depending on the nurse's specialty and expertise, cardiac nurses contribute to many different aspects of a patient's clinical experience. Nurse practitioners provide clinical assessments and treatments through a coordinated plan of care with the patient and the patient's cardiologist. Nurses in the Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Center are experts in intensive, individualized cardiac risk factor management for both primary and secondary prevention of heart disease, and echo and nuclear cardiology nurses supervise diagnostic cardiac testing for a variety of cardiac conditions.
In addition to patient care, many Heart Center nurses contribute to nursing professional development, public health forums and the latest cardiac research protocols. Nurses provide patients and families with information on the latest cardiac research.
Outpatient nurses are located in:
- Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care (Yawkey 5B and 5E)
- 25 New Chardon Street
- 55 Fruit Street (Bigelow 800, Gray/Bigelow 109 and Cox 6)
- Mass General Hospital research facilities
Providing the gold standard in nursing 
Massachusetts General Hospital is one of just 298 hospitals in the world to earn Magnet designation, the highest honor for nursing excellence awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center
