St. Joseph Heart Institute
The St. Joseph Heart Institute provides cardiovascular services including cardiac diagnostics, cardiovascular interventions, open-heart surgery, chest-pain center and cardiac rehabilitation. The facility includes a digital cardiac catheterization laboratory and an extensive area devoted to non-invasive testing and cardiac risk screening.
Our focus is to provide state-of-the-art cardiovascular care in a positive healing environment which includes preventing, detecting and managing complex cardiovascular disease.
Non-invasive diagnostics consists of:
- Coronary Calcium Score
- Stress testing by pharmacology and nuclear scanning
- Echocardiography (echo)
- Stress echocardiograph
- EKG
- 24 hour holter monitoring
- Cardiac doppler.
Invasive procedures and therapeutic services consist of:
- Cardioversion
- Tilt table testing
- Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE)
- Cardiac catheterization
- Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI)/PTCA/angioplasty/stent/balloon procedure
- Percutaneous peripheral interventions
- Electrophysiology (EP) studies
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD)
- Permanent pacemaker implants
- Open heart surgery (coronary artery bypass graft-CABG, valve repair and replacement),
- State of the art surgical techniques and IV infusions for outpatient CHF patients.
