Harborview Medical Center/University of Washington’s (UW) Community Heart Failure Program (CHFP) Group Shot

Harborview Medical Center/University of Washington’s (UW) Community Heart Failure Program (CHFP)


Harborview Medical Center/University of Washington’s (UW) Community Heart Failure Program (CHFP) is an innovative, low-barrier, multidisciplinary healthcare team that provides advanced cardiac care to patients with heart failure (HF) and health-related social needs such as poverty, housing and food insecurity, mental illness, substance use, among others. Care is provided in the community at locations of the patient’s choice (shelter, subsidized housing building, community center, street etc). The program was co-founded in October 2021 by Kate Smith, an RN and Jaimie Pechan, a HF-trained nurse practitioner, who recognized a large gap in the care of these marginalized patients. The team now includes UW faculty cardiologists Dr. Mrinal Yadava and Dr. Danelle Hidano, UW pharmacist Alex Deng and patient support specialist Zoley Hallock.