About the Dean & St. Mary’s Cardiac Center
Since the mid 1960s, the Dean & St. Mary's Cardiac Center has prided itself on being a leader in cardiovascular care.
Through a combination of skill and leading-edge technologies, Dean & St. Mary's cardiologists provide a wide range of cardiac diagnostic services including pediatric and adult cardiac catheterization, echo cardiography, stress and electrophysiologic testing and 24-hour monitoring services. Over 500 patients receive services through the pacemaker and defibrillator clinic, located at St. Mary's Hospital. Dean & St. Mary's cardiologists also provide up-to-date treatments in catheter ablation, atherectomy, stent, and balloon angioplasty.
Dean & St. Mary's cardiologists have performed over 20,000 cardiac catheterization procedures. The Dean & St. Mary's Cardiac Center was the local leader in developing cardiac catheterization into an outpatient procedure. The Cardiac Center performs the most bypass surgeries and most angioplasties in the area. In 2006, they introduced the Level One Heart Attack Program, to improve the speed and quality of care given to heart attack victims throughout the region. And St. Mary's is the first hospital in Madison with the revolutionary new 64-slice CT (computed tomography) scanner, which allows doctors to capture detailed images of the heart and arteries in seconds, without any invasive procedures and with no recovery time.
The Dean & St. Mary's Cardiac Center includes at the hospital a 37-bed nursing unit that offers 24-hour telemetry monitoring. The hospital's 12-bed Medical Intensive Care Unit and 10-bed Surgical Intensive Care Unit provide patients compassionate and highly skilled nursing care after critical cardiac injury or surgery.
Cardiac Surgery
According to the American College of Cardiology, facilities that do at least 200 to 300 open heart procedures per year provide the highest quality of care. Surgeons at Dean & St. Mary's Cardiac Center perform over 600 procedures yearly including coronary bypass, valve replacements, and other surgical procedures involving the heart or its major vessels. Many of the individuals on the cardiac surgery staff have been part of the cardiac surgery program since its beginning in 1969.
Cardiac Rehabilitation
The Cardiac Center's Cardiac Rehabilitation team consists of an onsite Medical Director and medical assistant, Clinical Exercise Physiologists, an RN, and 2 registered dietitians. St. Mary’s Hospital offers Phase I (inpatient), Phase II (outpatient), and Phase III (Maintenance) Cardiac Rehabilitation.
The hospital's new Cardiac Rehabilitation area opened in 2006 in the St. Mary's inpatient building. The Center provides ongoing education, support and carefully monitored exercise during the initial phases of recovery from a heart attack, coronary artery stenting or after heart surgery. The Center also provides care to newly diagnosed cardiomyopathy, heart failure, heart transplant and Peripheral Artery Disease patients. The center is equipped with exercise bikes, treadmills, ellipticals, recumbent elliptical and bikes, NuSteps, and weight training equipment. Education is a major part of the program and is provided for enrollees and their families on-site.