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Heart Care

From high cholesterol to high blood pressure and comprehensive heart and vascular care, our team will be right by your side with expert, compassionate care focused on getting you back to those who matter most.

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From welcoming a new life to celebrating a life well lived and all the moments in between, your heart beats for those you love. We know that a healthy heart is as important to them as it is to you. 

Society of Chest Pain Centers Accredited Chest Pain Center seal logoSt. Elizabeth’s Hospital received Chest Pain Center Accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC), an international organization dedicated to eliminating heart disease as the number one cause of death worldwide.

Hospitals that have received SCPC accreditation have achieved a higher level of expertise in dealing with patients who arrive with symptoms of a heart attack. They emphasize the importance of standardized diagnostic and treatment programs that provide more efficient and effective evaluation as well as more appropriate and rapid treatment of patients with chest pain and other heart attack symptoms. They also serve as a point of entry into the healthcare system to evaluate and treat other medical problems, and they help to promote a healthier lifestyle in an attempt to reduce the risk factors for heart attack.

St. Elizabeth’s Hospital became the first healthcare facility in the St. Louis metropolitan area and 70th nationwide when it received Cycle I accreditation in October of 2004. The facility is in the process of obtaining Cycle V accreditation. 

Senior woman sitting outside on a park bench holding her chest as she may be having a heart attack.

Prairie Heart Institute of Illinois at St. Elizabeth's

St. Elizabeth's Hospital is committed to providing the best heart care possible to the people of this region. We partner with nationally-recognized Prairie Heart Institute of Illinois, a community-based network of hospitals and clinics offering the highest level of cardiovascular care. By working together, the hospital and PHI are able to develop and implement unique clinical and training programs for physicians and staff, educate patients on the importance of cardiac health while applying the newest procedures to save lives.

Prairie Heart at St. Elizabeth's combines advanced technology and innovative treatment with a caring tradition, providing quality healthcare close to home. The comprehensive services available to the region include a continuum of care through diagnostic testing such as stress tests, electrocardiograms, and diagnostic catheterization; emergency heart care; and cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation. 

Heart Care Procedures

  • Ablation of complex arrhythmia
  • Angioplasty with stenting
  • Atrial septal defect closures
  • Defibrillator implantation
  • Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
  • Electrophysiologic evaluation of complex arrhythmias
  • Evaluation of cardiac valves
  • Evaluation of congenital heart disease
  • Pacemaker implantation
  • Patent foramen oval closures
  • Vascular angioplasty and stenting
  • Cardiac and vascular ultrasound
  • Doppler exams
  • Electrocardiograms
  • Holter monitoring
  • Nuclear treadmill testing
  • Stress echocardiography
  • Transesophageal echocardiography
  • Multi slice cardiac/vascular CT angiogram
  • Aortic root and arch surgery
  • Cardiac Anesthesia Monitoring
  • Cerebral oxygenation monitoring
  • Continuous right and left heart function monitoring
  • Coronary artery bypass graft surgery
  • General thoracic surgery (Mediastinal tumors; lung surgery; extensive, minimally invasive, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery)
  • Heart valve replacement and repair
  • Perioperative transesophageal echocardiography
  • Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
  • Transmyocardial laser revascularization
  • Thorascopic microwave ablation
  • Vascular surgery (aortic, cerebrovascular renal and peripheral)