Carondelet Heart Institute is a hospital within a hospital focusing on cardiovascular services. The Institute has it's own parking and entrance.

The Institute integrates and expands the cardiovascular services currently in place at St. Joseph Medical Center including cardiac diagnostics, cardiovascular interventions, open-heart surgery, a chest-pain center and cardiac rehabilitation.

The facility includes a digital cardiac catheterization laboratory and an extensive area for 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.

We provide invasive and non-invasive cardiovascular procedures to the young adult, adult and geriatric patient population. The invasive procedures and therapeutic services consist of cardioversion, tilt table testing, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), cardiac catheterization and 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. Non-invasive diagnostics consists of stress testing by pharmacology and nuclear scanning, echocardiography (echo), stress echocardiography, EKG, 24 hour holter monitoring and cardiac doppler.

Procedures for both labs are performed routinely, emergently and on an inpatient/outpatient basis. The labs have staff available on a 24-hour/ 7 day per week basis.

The area has a eighteen bed holding area that is utilized for pre and post procedural care. Outpatients arrive in the morning and are discharged home in the afternoon or admitted to the inpatient setting.

Three cardiac cath labs are available for testing. Two echo and three stress testing areas are available for the non-invasive testing and an EKG workroom for processing the EKGs and other non-invasive testing. The staff qualifications are BCLS, ACLS, RN and ARRT.