Mercy Heart and Vascular Hospital St. Louis

Mercy Heart and Vascular Hospital is the first facility in the region devoted exclusively to preventing, detecting and treating heart and vascular diseases. Supported by our emergency department, we are the only Level I Trauma Center in St. Louis County, giving patients immediate access to emergency care.

Hospital features and services include: 

• Nine floors dedicated to heart care services
• 96 private patient rooms with accommodations for family members
• Operating rooms dedicated exclusively to heart and vascular care
• On-site laboratories for the diagnosis and treatment of heart and vascular disease including:
  • Noninvasive cardiac and vascular testing
  • Cardiac catheterization lab
  • A cardiac rehabilitation gym
• Nontraditional services complementing traditional care including massage therapy, acupuncture and healing touch
• Specialty clinics: 
• Center for Heart Valve Disease – offers sophisticated testing and expert treatment for a variety of valve problems
  • Mercy Lipid Center – serves patients requiring specialty care for disorders related to abnormal cholesterol
  • Aortic Center – for emergencies like aortic dissection or aneurysm
  • Mercy Arrhythmia Center – for patients suffering from heart rhythm conditions
  • Mercy Stroke Center – provides experienced specialists ready to assist with stroke
  • Mercy Heart Failure/Advanced Heart Failure Institute – offers inpatient and outpatient heart failure (HF) services to help patients manage HF for better quality of life

Mercy Hospital St. Louis has repeatedly been named one of the nation’s 50 top cardiovascular hospitals by Watson Health Analytics™.

Mercy Heart and Vascular Hospital offers comprehensive leading-edge cardiology services – noninvasive testing, cardiac interventions, treatments, procedures and rehabilitation – and exceptional care to patients with conditions including:

• Heart attack/disease
• Aortic aneurysm
• Acute coronary syndrome
• Coronary artery disease
• Congenital heart disease
• Heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation)
• Heart valve problems
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Lung cancer
• Stroke
• Thrombosis
• Varicose veins/venous disease
• Walking leg pain (peripheral artery disease)
• Shortness of breath (dyspnea)

Procedures

The cardiologists and cardiac surgeons at Mercy Heart and Vascular Hospital offer procedures including:

• Advanced diagnostic testing (echo, stress, etc.)
• Cardiac catheterization lab procedures
• Electrophysiology devices such as loop recorders, pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs)
• Electrophysiology ablations
• Vascular surgery and peripheral vascular lab
• Cardiac surgery
• Minimally-invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) surgery
• Thoracic surgery
• Non-invasive vascular testing
• Alcohol septal ablation
• Angioplasty and stent placement
• Aortic surgery
• Cardiac catheterization
• Computed tomography angiogram (CT Angiogram)
• Doppler ultrasound
• Electrocardiograms
• LARIAT procedure
• Stress testing
• Transesophageal echocardiography
• Valvuloplasty
• WATCHMAN device for AFib treatment

Mercy cardiovascular staff care for patients at more than 10 area locations for patient convenience.