Expert cardiovascular care is never far from home.
Our many locations across North and Central Texas mean you don’t have to travel far to find a cardiovascular specialist. Our teams deliver care through two primary heart and vascular locations—Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital and Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital—as well as at our network of hospitals and more than 100 outpatient clinics.
The experienced cardiologists, heart surgeons, vascular surgeons and heart valve specialists on our medical staff have helped many of these locations earn national recognition for quality care. Organizations such as U.S. News & World Report, the American Heart Association, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the American College of Surgeons and others have recognized a number of our sites for quality care, patient safety and excellent patient outcomes.
Whether you’re in Dallas or College Station, Austin or Waco, or anywhere in between, you can trust that expert, compassionate cardiovascular specialists are close by.
Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital
When it opened in 2002, Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital became the first hospital in North Texas to treat cardiovascular disease exclusively. You have access to a comprehensive suite of diagnostic and treatment programs across our three heart and vascular locations in Dallas, Fort Worth and Waxahachie, including:
- Advanced imaging and stress tests to painlessly diagnose heart and vascular conditions.
- Cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation to help you recover from major cardiac events or address vascular conditions, such as peripheral artery disease.
- Cardiac and vascular surgeries, including heart bypass surgery, heart transplants, heart valve surgery, percutaneous coronary intervention and other complex procedures.
- Electrophysiology services to diagnose and treat all types of heart arrhythmias.
- Interventional cardiology, in which our heart and vascular specialists use minimally invasive procedures to diagnose and treat heart attacks, strokes and many other cardiovascular diseases.
- Specialized programs for heart failure, heart valve disease and heart rhythm disorders
Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital
Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital has delivered a decade of high-quality care in Plano, Denton and McKinney. Whether you require specialty care for heart disease or treatment for a complex vascular condition, you can find the heart and vascular services you need.
Our three locations offer many screenings for heart and vascular diseases to help us identify these conditions. We also offer:
- Advanced heart failure care, including heart transplants and bridge-to-transplant care, such as ventricular assist devices.
- Electrophysiology services for heart rhythm disorders.
- Interventional cardiology to treat heart conditions using minimally invasive, catheter-based procedures.
- Cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation and other support programs for people recovering from heart and vascular conditions.
In addition, cardiothoracic surgeons perform many heart surgeries and minimally invasive procedures involving the heart, lungs, esophagus and diaphragm.
The site is one of only a handful of hospitals in the nation to earn a prestigious three-star rating for exceptional quality and patient outcomes in all five surgical categories monitored by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons:
- Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (a type of heart bypass, also known as CABG)
- Aortic valve surgery
- Mitral valve surgery
- Surgeries involving the aortic
- Mitral valve and CABG
That experience means you can trust that you’re putting your heart in the right hands.
Heart and vascular care in North and Central Texas
Providers across our entire system work with our cardiovascular teams to deliver your care at the location best suited to your needs. Based on your diagnosis or treatment plan, your Baylor Scott & White Health provider can coordinate with heart and vascular specialists at our local hospitals and more than 100 outpatient clinics in North and Central Texas.
When living with a heart condition, follow-up care is a key part of your long-term care plan. While you may have your primary treatment at one of our larger facilities, your follow-up care may be available at a location closer to home. We’ll work with you to coordinate appointments that are convenient to you so you continue to get quality heart and vascular care, no matter where you live.