Heart, Vascular Institute Opens Clinic to Serve South Hillsborough

TAMPA, FL — This week Tampa General Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute opened its new satellite clinic. The TGH Heart & Vascular Institute Sun City Center clinic is located at 959 E Del Webb Blvd, Sun City Center. It is a joint effort between the TGH Heart Failure Center of Excellence and USF Health Cardiology and is the first cross-organization clinic to provide cardiac imaging and diagnostic testing.

“Our goal with this clinic is to establish a robust center for cardiology care for the south Hillsborough community,” said Dr. Benjamin D. Mackie, co-interim medical director of the USF|TGH Heart & Vascular Institute, medical director of the HVI Heart Failure Center of Excellence, and medical director of Heart Transplantation.

“We are seeing a steady increase in the number of patients needing cardiac care in the hospital and by bringing leading-edge care and advanced diagnostic testing to the Sun City Center area, we hope to improve the heart health of the community,” Mackie said.

To provide comprehensive care, TGH Heart & Vascular Institute Sun City Center will be staffed by highly trained cardiologists, cardiology providers, a stress-testing nurse and other essential clinicians.

Services will include:

• Echocardiograms
• Nuclear stress test
• Exercise stress echo
• Exercise treadmill test
• Heart failure studies
• Cardiology services

“Our TGH Heart & Vascular Institute clinic provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary resource for residents of the growing South Hillsborough community seeking nationally recognized heart care,” said Dr. Fadi Matar, co-interim medical director of the USF|TGH Heart & Vascular Institute, interventional cardiologist at Tampa General Hospital and associate professor of the Division of Cardiology at USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. “Should patients need a higher level of care, we can connect them to our academic health system specialists for treatment ranging from heart catheterizations to heart transplants.”

Tampa General is ranked among the top 10 percent of hospitals in the nation for cardiology and heart surgery in the 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals ranking.

This is the second satellite clinic that the TGH Heart & Vascular Institute has established in the Tampa Bay region. In March, the academic health system launched its first clinic in the area with a satellite location for the TGH Limb Preservation-Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Program, which a offers multi-disciplinary, integrated and evidence-based approach to the management and care of patients with complex PAD who are at risk for a limb amputation.

For more information about the TGH Heart & Vascular Institute, visit Heart & Vascular Institute | Tampa General Hospital or to schedule an appointment, call 813-821-8044. Self-referrals to the TGH Heart & Vascular Institute Sun City Center are accepted.