Cardiology specialties and programs

Health Education

Ascension Via Christi St. Francis in Wichita, Kansas is the first hospital in the region that offers a new therapy for stroke survivors.

Health Education

Via Christi St. Francis recently reached an important milestone in vascular care by becoming the first hospital in Wichita to perform a new minimally invasive procedure for complex aortic aneurysms.

Wellness

Grace Gearhart, DO, family medicine and women’s care physician with Via Christi in Wichita, Kansas, discusses five risk factors for stroke in women.

Health Education

Via Christi Weight Management surgical weight-loss team in Wichita, KS, helps patients treat obesity as a chronic disease with proven, life-changing bariatric surgery and lasting support.

Health Education

Via Christi Weight Management’s surgical weight loss program in Wichita, KS, combined with weight-loss medications offers powerful results.

Health Education

Andrew Hunt, MD, radiation oncologist at Ascension Via Christi in Wichita, Kansas shares what men should know about prostate cancer and how to treat it.

Patient Story

A third-time mom shares her positive labor and delivery experience at Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan Birth and Women’s Center in Manhattan, Kansas.

Patient Story

This new mom is grateful for Ascension Via Christi Birth and Women's Center in Manhattan, Kansas, for compassionate care for first delivery.

Health Education

Via Christi Weight Management program in Wichita, Kansas, offers a comprehensive bariatric surgery program for people who struggle with weight loss.

Health Education

If incidents occur this Fourth of July, knowing where and when to get immediate and emergency care is important.

Health Education

Ascension urgent care and orthopedic teams are here to help you manage your summer injury.

Patient Story

From endometriosis, pregnancy loss and healing, Via Christi integrated OB-GYN, physical therapy and pediatrics helped a Wichita woman realize her dreams of motherhood with personalized care.

Our Associates

The Via Christi St. Joseph NICU in Wichita, KS, provides traveling doctors with trusted, specialized care after the delivery of both of their babies.

Patient Story

An affiliation between Via Christi in Wichita and Children’s Mercy Kansas City helps families receive advanced care for newborns with the most complicated conditions.

Patient Story

Via Christi Hospital Birth and Women’s Center in Manhattan, Kansas, helped provide a smooth delivery, compassionate nursing care and lactation support for this first-time mom.

Patient Story

Via Christi Valve and Cardiac Rehab clinics helped a Wichita native recover after having open-heart surgery and a TAVR procedure.

Our Associates

Dr. Hugh Wong, sleep specialist at Ascension Medical Group Via Christi in Wichita, explains how poor sleep increases the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and stress.

Patient Story

Ascension Via Christi Weight Management in Wichita, KS, helped a patient transform his health with a 90 pound weight loss and a new outlook on life.

Our Associates

Brett Grizzell, MD, FACS, medical co-director of Via Christi’s Lung Nodule Clinic, has completed his 1,000th robotic-assisted surgery for the treatment of lung cancer in Wichita, Kansas.

Patient Story

This woman puts herself first and loses 238 pounds with Via Christi Weight Management’s surgical weight loss program in Wichita, KS.

Patient Story

Via Christi’s Weight Management program in Wichita, Kansas helps grieving mother lose 70 lbs in 23 weeks.

Patient Story

Dr. Johnathan Scrafford, and the Via Christi OB-GYN team safely deliver a baby during a high-risk cesarean scar ectopic pregnancy.

Patient Story

A Wichita mom who used Ascension Via Christi childbirth education classes for her first child enrolls again to prepare for her second baby.

Community

The Surgical Review Corporation’s review process adds Ascension Via Christi St. Teresa to its list of hernia centers that provide excellent care.

Our Associates

Ragnar Peterson, MD, Ascension Medical Group Via Christi hernia surgeon, recognized nationally for quality care.

Community

Ascension Via Christi in Wichita, KS, celebrates a decade of its hybrid operating room, which is used for structural heart procedures.

Health Education

Ascension Via Christi in Wichita, Kansas now offers a new minimally invasive AFib therapy for persistent abnormal heart rhythms.

Patient Story

Ascension Via Christi stroke nurse took on the role as patient during her birthing experience and appreciated the care she received from her coworkers.

Patient Story

Ascension Via Christi Weight Management helps Wichita man lose weight without surgery through diet and exercise.

Patient Story

Ascension Via Christi heart care teams discover a farmer's rare heart condition that required emergency surgery to repair.

Patient Story

Quick, life-saving care from Ascension Via Christi Comprehensive Stroke Center helped a Wichita woman get back to work within a week.

Patient Story

Curt Ghormley spent 83 days at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis for an aggressive bone marrow cancer. He wrote a book after entering into remission.

Health Education

Ascension Via Christi Structural Heart adds 4D intracardiac echo device to better view patients' hearts and perform interventional procedures.

Community

Ascension Via Christi has purchased a customized mobile mammography vehicle, which once received and operational this summer, will make 3D breast imaging screening exams available at worksites and other Wichita, Manhattan and Pittsburg, Kansas, area community sites.

Patient Story

Susan Keeton suffered a stroke and was treated with quality care at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis in Wichita, resulting in Ascension becoming her chosen provider.

Patient Story

Courtney and Billy Walston had planned to celebrate their two-year wedding anniversary dining out and discussing the next major milestone in their lives: The arrival of their first baby, due Feb. 15, 2023.

Patient Story

Jacque Gordon loves being a nurse and for 44 years has found joy in helping patients get back to their lives.

Patient Story

While an emergency Cesarean section hadn’t been a part of Jonnie and A.J. VanKleek's birth plan, they were thrilled with the five-star care they received at Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph.

Patient Story

Elaina Johnson was approximately six weeks pregnant with her fourth child when she had a feeling that "something wasn't right."

Our Associates

The Ascension Via Christi Palliative Care team often witnesses and engages in acts of kindness to bring a measure of comfort to end-of-life patients and their families.

Our Associates

Because lung cancers can be curable when discovered while still small and localized, Ascension Via Christi invested in a robotic-assisted platform that can locate and reach nodules as small as 8 millimeters.

Patient Story

Doctors at the Ascension Via Christi Lung Nodule Clinic in Wichita, KS, helped find and treat lung cancer quickly because of a lung cancer screening.

Our Associates

Ascension Via Christi associate was diagnosed with breast cancer after a self examination, and found care and support from her colleagues in Wichita, KS.

Our Associates

Annie Simmons didn't initially plan to make nursing her life's work.

Our Associates

Sarah Wine lost her mother 10 years ago to cancer and her father two years ago to COVID-19.

Our Associates

On Nov. 10, Betty McCutcheon finished her last day of 25 years as an Ascension Via Christi Volunteer. On Nov. 16, she celebrated her 90th birthday.