The Heart Function Clinic at KHSC was established in 2000 to provide evidence-based heart failure (HF) care to patients referred from the community, from KHSC hospitals and emergency departments (EDs), and from internists and cardiologists within and outside KHSC. The clinic follows nearly 40% of HF patients discharged from the hospital, which reduces the rates of readmission and return to the emergency department. This was demonstrated as early as 2002 in the 2 years after the clinic was launched, where rates of HF readmissions declined by 80% and ED visits by 83%.