Tri-County Heart Institute is an independent, physician-owned cardiology practice serving The Villages, Lady Lake, and Leesburg, Florida. We are adding a full-time internal medicine physician to build the primary care side of our Women's Heart Center. Dr. Nitza Alvarez, our founder and medical director, built the Women's Heart Center because she kept seeing the same problem in this community. Women were under-recognized and under-treated for cardiovascular disease, and by the time many of them reached a cardiologist, the window where prevention would have mattered most had already closed. The program has outgrown what cardiology alone can do. Cardiology is downstream. This role exists so that blood pressure, lipids, metabolic health, weight, sleep, and menopause-related risk are managed from the beginning, rather than after an event. Tri-County has been practicing prevention for ten years, well before prevention became popular. This is not language we adopted recently. It is how the practice was built.
