The 154-bed Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center includes more than 75 physicians and receives more than $15 million in research support each year. In 2013, Houston Methodist researchers found a small difference in how an intra-aorta balloon pump is placed inside the aorta could help some heart failure patients survive long enough to get a heart transplant and their findings were published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Heart Failure in the same year. The hospital has received Magnet designation for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
