Specialties & Services

Heart and Vascular

We are leaders in the region for heart and vascular care.  Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute experts blend advanced treatments with compassionate care for excellent outcomes. Your heart-healthier life starts here. 

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Heart specialties and services at Saint Luke’s

Trust your heart care to the expert team at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute. You’ll have access to innovative treatments and specialized services to improve your heart health. 

Cardiac Rehabilitation

Our comprehensive cardiac rehab programs help you strengthen your heart through medically supervised exercise.

Cardiovascular Imaging
We offer advanced cardiac imaging and diagnostic testing. Our cardiologists take time to explain your test results and diagnosis, so you fully understand the condition and our recommendations.

Coronary Artery Disease Treatment

Our heart surgeons and interventional cardiologists specialize in bypass surgery and cardiac catheterization for coronary artery disease.

Electrophysiology

Heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmia), such as atrial fibrillation, requires specialized care from an experienced team. Our cardiac electrophysiologists provide the tests and minimally invasive treatments you need for better heart function. 

Heart Attack Care

Every minute counts during a heart attack. The Emergency Department at each of our hospitals provide protocol-driven heart attack care to get you help as soon as possible.

Heart Disease in Women
Saint Luke's Muriel I. Kauffman Women’s Heart Center is the first center of its kind in the United States to take a proactive role in addressing women’s heart health.

Heart Failure Care

We offer a full range of heart failure treatment options. Using a combination of medicine, surgery, and symptom management strategies, each patient receives a personalized care plan.

Heart Surgery

We’re regional heart surgery leaders. Cardiac surgery is performed to correct acquired or congenital defects; replace diseased valves; bypass blocked vessels; or transplant a heart. 

Heart Transplant

As the region’s leader in heart transplantation, we have performed more than 1,000 transplants.

Heart Valve Disease Care

We specialize in minimally invasive heart valve repair and replacement. Our surgeons are regional leaders in valve disease care.

Interventional Cardiology

Our experts treat many cardiovascular conditions using catheter-based procedures, which are alternatives to open surgery.

Vascular Services

We excel in providing the full range of treatment option, including minimally invasive procedures, for aneurysms, carotid artery disease, and peripheral artery disease.

Why choose us for heart care?

Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute offers the most comprehensive heart and vascular care in Kansas City. We provide the full range of cardiovascular services, from disease prevention to heart transplantation. At Saint Luke’s we use the latest technology to provide a full range of services and treatments. Our team has participated in countless clinical trials that in many cases led to FDA-approved devices, treatment options, and procedures. 

We provide: 

  • More specialized physicians 
  • More experience 
  • More innovative treatment options for patients 

Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City is proud to be the third hospital in the U.S to achieve Comprehensive Cardiac Center certification from The Joint Commission. In 2023, we completed our 1,000th heart transplant, making us one of only 23 programs in the country to achieve this milestone. Also, our valve disease program was one of the first in the nation to offer transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and performed our 1000th procedure in late 2023. We’ve saved thousands of lives and helped many more people achieve better heart health. 

With six locations in the Kansas City metro area and seven outreach locations, Saint Luke’s Cardiovascular Consultants extends our expertise in cardiac care to patients throughout the region. 

Our medical team consists of board-certified clinical cardiologists and physicians who are certified in specialty areas of cardiology, including interventional cardiology, echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, preventive cardiology, electrophysiology, vascular cardiology, adult congenital heart disease, and advanced heart failure and transplant. We also work closely with Saint Luke’s cardiovascular surgeons to provide cardiothoracic surgical services.  

What makes us unique and allows us to provide unmatched care is our team approach to comprehensive patient care. We are committed to furthering the field of cardiology—training more fellows than any other program in the region and publishing more research studies than most cardiology departments in the country. 

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Our highly trained team of heart specialists offer advanced treatments as well as compassionate, personalized care. 

Clinical Trials for Heart and Vascular

Cardiovascular research continues to be a major focus at Saint Luke’s. The program currently encompasses research programs in each of the major clinical areas, including interventional cardiology, cardiac surgery, heart failure and cardiac transplantation, cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac imaging, women’s heart care, valve, vascular, and preventive cardiology and diabetes management. 

In addition to supporting clinical research, the cardiovascular research program encompasses centers of excellence and core laboratories in: 

  • Cardiovascular outcomes research
  • Health economics and technology assessment
  • Intravascular imaging
  • Noninvasive imaging 

These centers of excellence currently serve as core laboratories for a wide range of studies that often involve collaboration with other leading cardiovascular centers and researchers from around the world. The Heart Institute continues to serve as one of the four Analytic Centers, along with Duke, Harvard, and Yale, for the American College of Cardiology’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 

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