Atrium Health cardiac care experts worked tirelessly to creatively adapt an alarm-based mechanical heart pump for a deaf patient, enabling him to feel the alarms instead of hearing them.
Patient advocacy is at the core of Atrium Health care. This is especially important when patients have disabilities and require creative solutions to health challenges.
Connie Bowling, a 75-year-old deaf patient from Forsyth County, received a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) in March 2024. He became the first Atrium Health patient — and one of only a handful of hearing-impaired patients in the U.S. — to receive an LVAD.