Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota (Sioux Falls, S.D.). Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota is the only hospital in its area to be dedicated solely to the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. The hospital, which is a partnership between Avera McKennan, North Central Heart Institute and MedCath, offers 55 critical-care beds, three surgical suites, and three catheterization labs in addition to radiology, laboratory, pharmacy and respiratory therapy departments. The hospital also operates its own emergency room, which is staffed by physicians around the clock. The hospital was the first accredited chest pain center in South Dakota and was a recipient of the American Heart Association Start Fit Friendly Company Gold Award in 2008. The hospital performs a variety of cardiovascular services including cardiac catheterization, cardiac surgery, catheter ablation, coronary and carotid stints and pacemaker implantation. The hospital also sponsors a PlanetHeart program to promote cardiovascular health and offers patients access to its outpatient nutrition clinic. www.southdakotaheart.com
Arizona Heart Hospital (Phoenix). Arizona Heart Hospital is a state-of-the-art facility focusing on cardiovascular care that offers the latest interventional and surgical treatments for a wide range of heart, lung and vascular disorders, as well as chronic wounds. Arizona Heart Hospital is home to more than 300 physicians and features a cardiac catheterization lab, cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgery, a wound healing center and emergency care. HealthGrades ranked Arizona Heart in the top 5 percent of hospitals nationwide and number one in Arizona for overall cardiac services and vascular surgery. In addition, HealthGrades awarded the facility its five-star ranking for cardiology services, coronary bypass surgery, coronary interventional procedures, treatment of heart attack, treatment of heart failure and carotid surgery. www.azhearthospital.com
Heart Hospital of Austin (Austin, Texas). Heart Hospital of Austin is a 58-bed facility offering a full range of cardiac services, including a 24-hour emergency center. The three-story, 138,000 square-foot facility opened 1998 and provides cardiothoracic surgery, cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology and vascular services. Heart Hospital of Austin was ranked number one in Texas for cardiac services for 6 years in a row by HealthGrades. The hospital is also active in a number of research efforts and was recently the first site in the world to test the efficacy of new adult stem cell therapy to treat damaged heart tissue as part of a Phase II trial. www.hearthospitalofaustin.com
Heart Hospital of Lafayette (Lafayette, La.). Heart Hospital of Lafayette is a 32-bed hospital that focuses specifically on heart disease. The hospital features two operating rooms and two catheterization labs as well as a Heart Emergency Center, which is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and a Chest Pain Center. Heart Hospital of Lafayette was named a Top 100 Cardiovascular Hospital by Thomson Reuters in 2008. Each of the hospital’s private patient rooms are specially equipped to meet the needs of heart and vascular patients and offer sleeper beds for patients’ family members, which are allowed visitation privileges 24 hours a day. The hospital also offers patients’ families access to a concierge to assist family members with various needs. The hospital provides a variety of heart care services and includes full-service diagnostic facilities including nuclear medicine, echo cardiography, treadmill stress testing and comprehensive radiological technology. www.hearthospitallaf.net
Heart Hospital of New Mexico (Albuquerque, N.M.). The Heart Hospital of New Mexico features 55 inpatient beds, three operating rooms with complete facilities for heart and vascular surgery and four state-of-the-art cardiac catheterization labs. Physicians at the Heart Hospital of New Mexico treat a variety of heart and cardiovascular conditions and staff a 24-hour emergency department. The hospital, which opened in 1999, was the state’s first hospital dedicated to the prevention and treatment of heart disease. Today, the facility performs more heart procedures than any other facility in New Mexico. The hospital also offers patients live harp music before and after procedures as part of the Therapeutic Harp Program. The project was proposed by a music practitioner as an intervention to reduce patient and family anxiety before and after surgery. www.hearthospitalnm.com
The Indiana Heart Hospital (Indianapolis). The Indiana Heart Hospital is a 56-bed hospital with four surgery suites and four cardiac catheterization labs. TIHH runs the state’s only 24-hour cardiac emergency room, which has cardiologists on site around the clock. The hospital has more than 50 physicians, including cardiologists and cardio-thoracic and vascular surgeons who perform approximately 575 open heart procedures and treat more than 4,800 patients in their cardiac emergency room annually. TIHH has been named to the Thomson Reuters’ list of Top 100 Hospital for Cardiovascular Care and received the Indianapolis Patient Safety Coalition Hero Award in 2006 and 2007. The hospital provides a variety of heart services including diagnostic catheterization, interventional cardiology, electrophysiology and vascular and open heart surgery. TIHH also runs a Healthy Hearts Center, which features an anticoagulation clinic, a congestive heart failure clinic, cardiac rehabilitation, a screening center and nutritional consultation. www.hearthospital.com
Lubbock Heart Hospital (Lubbock, Texas). Lubbock Heart Hospital is a 74-bed facility, which includes sixteen cardiac coronary care beds. The hospital was ranked number one in Texas for cardiology services by HealthGrades and has received several 5-star rankings for its cardiac service lines. Lubbock Heart Hospital features four surgical suites, four catheterization labs, an electrophysiology laboratory and a sleep lab. The hospital runs a cardiac emergency department that is staffed 24 hours, seven days a week, and is home to more than 150 specialty physicians. www.lubbockhearthospital.com
Nebraska Heart Institute Heart Hospital (Lincoln, Neb.). The Nebraska Heart Institute Hospital is a leading cardiovascular care provider for patients in Nebraska, western Iowa and northern Kansas. Nebraska Heart provides a variety of surgical and non-surgical treatment for a variety of heart conditions and features an arrhythmia clinic, a lipid clinic and a women’s heart program. The hospital was the first facility in Nebraska to provide angioplasty and the first in Lincoln to perform a heart transplant. The physicians at Nebraska Heart perform more than 2,000 interventions, 1,000 open heart surgeries and 650 pacemaker implantations annually. Physicians at the hospital also participate in a number of research studies and clinical trials each year. Currently, the hospital’s research includes heart failure drug and hypertension device trials and heart failure surgical trials. www.neheart.com
Oklahoma Heart Hospital (Oklahoma City, Okla.). Oklahoma Heart Hospital is at 78-bed cardiovascular-dedicated facility that features four surgical suites and five catheterization labs. The facility, a cooperative venture between Oklahoma Cardiovascular Associates and the Sisters of Mercy Health System, was Oklahoma’s first dedicated heart hospital. The facility offers comprehensive heart services and boasts a one-to-four nurse-to-patient ratio as well as a patient satisfaction ranking in the 99th percentile. Oklahoma Heart Hospital offers the only dedicated heart emergency department in Oklahoma City and performs more than 1,100 heart surgeries annually. www.okheart.com
Pepin Heart Hospital (Tampla, Fla.). Pepin Heart Hospital is a 125,000 square-foot hospital that includes a 52-bed pre- and post-cardiovascular interventional unit, 16 cardiovascular critical care beds, a 20-bed cardiac surgery recovery unit, 48 progressive care beds, five surgical suites and 10 cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology invasive procedure suites. The hospital, part of University Community Health, was named after Art Pepin, the world’s oldest heart transplant recipient and a philanthropist who funded a heart institute through University Community Health almost 20 years ago. The institute grew into a standalone hospital which opened in 2006. Pepin Heart Hospital offers a comprehensive array of services to both inpatients and outpatients. The facility is also home to the Dr. Kirin C. Patel Research Institute, which is involved in numerous clinical trials in the areas of coronary stents, bypass surgery, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, myocardial infarction and cholesterol lowering medication. www.pepinheart.org
