The Future of Heart Disease Treatment Is Now
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Texas Heart Institute (THI) offers a full range of specialty heart programs through our clinical partnership with St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital (St. Luke's). Led by THI founder and president emeritis, surgeon Denton A. Cooley, and by president and medical director, cardiologist James T. Willerson, our expert heart doctors are leaders in their fields with more experience and procedures performed than at any other institution.
Patients and their families benefit from our world-class excellence in improving patient care, education (St. Luke's is a leading teaching hospital), and research (world leaders in developing heart disease treatments with medical management, interventional cardiology, minimally invasive surgery, transplantation, mechanical assist devices, artificial hearts, stem cells, gene therapy and regenerative medicine). With these resources, our specialitists work together as a team, providing the latest technology and treatment options available.
Our Transplant and Heart Assist Device (VAD or Ventricular Assist Device) Programs are world famous for treating heart failure. More heart transplants and assist device (like the Heartmate II developed at THI) procedures have been performed here than at any other medical center or hospital in the world.
In the news . . . January 2, 2013
100 Hospitals With Great Heart Programs
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, home to Texas Heart Institute (THI), has been named as one of the "100 Hospitals With Great Heart Programs" by Becker's Hospital Review. THI was where one of the first few successful heart transplants in the nation took place in 1968. Surgeons at THI also performed the world's first total artificial heart transplant. In March 2012, St. Luke's received accreditation as a heart attack receiving center from the American Heart Association and Society of Chest Pain Centers. It is the only hospital in Houston to earn that recognition. The Becker's Hospital Review editorial team selected these hospitals offering outstanding heart care based on clinical accolades, recognition for quality care and contributions to the field of cardiology and cardiovascular surgery. These hospitals have been set apart for excellence in heart care and research by reputable healthcare rating resources, including U.S. News & World Report, HealthGrades, Thomson Reuters and the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Becker's Hospital Review
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Experience Counts in Heart Failure Management
Meet our heart failure experts
O.H. Frazier, MD Chief of Cardiopulmonary Transplantation;
Program director and chief of the Center for Cardiac Support;Director of Cardiovascular Surgery Research at the Texas Heart Institute,Chief of the Transplant Service at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
Hari R. Mallidi, MD
Associate Chief, Transplant Service;
Surgical Director, Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Programs;
Director, Clinical Outcomes Research, Center for Cardiac Support;
Co-Director, Center for Congenital and Familial Cardiovascular Disease,
Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital;
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine
William E. Cohn, MD
Director of Minimally Invasive Surgical Technology;
Associate Director, Laboratory Surgery Research – Center for Cardiac Support,
Texas Heart Institute, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
Associate Professor of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine
Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, University of Houston
Deborah Ellen Meyers, MD
Medical Director, Heart Failure Programs,
Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
Medical Director, Heart Failure Clinic at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
Andrew B. Civitello, MD
Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program,
Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
Reynolds M. Delgado, III, MD
Medical Director, Mechanical Assist Devices in Heart Failure,
Texas Heart Institute and St. Luke's Episcopal
How to find us on StLukesHouston.com:
Heart failure treatment information:
HEART FAILURE PROGRAM 832-355-3961
LVAD PROGRAM 832-355-2285, toll free at 877-685-0361
HEART TRANSPLANT PROGRAM 832-355-2285, International: 832-355-3350
Full range of heart conditions treatment:
HEART AND CARDIOVASCULAR PATIENT CARE SERVICES
FIND A DOCTOR or call 832-355-DOCS (3627)
PATIENT CENTER 832-355-1000
Admissions, insurance information, directions, billing questions, and other patient services.
EMERGENCY ROOM LOCATOR
If you are experiencing chest pain or what feels like a life threatening emergency, call 911 now.
INTERNATIONAL PATIENT CENTER 832-355-3350, international@sleh.com
Everything from travel assistance to comprehensive patient care.
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES at our Heart Information Center. Ask a Texas Heart Institute Doctor and more than 170 heart-health topics.
