St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
Founded by the Episcopal Diocese of Texas in 1954, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital delivers primary and tertiary health care to patients throughout the Houston metropolitan area and from around the world. The 946-bed nonprofit Hospital cares for more than 33,000 inpatients and 200,000 outpatients each year. St. Luke's is a teaching hospital with a medical staff of nearly 1,600 physicians. Sixty percent of the Hospital's active staff holds faculty appointments.
To enhance the quality of cardiovascular services available at St. Luke's, the Hospital offers a number of specialized features. The cardiac catheterization laboratory is the largest and most fully equipped lab in the world, and more than 10,500 diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are performed each year. The Transplant Center, one of the largest in the world, has performed more than 880 heart transplantations.
Established in 1962, the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's advances the understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease through innovative and progressive programs in research, education, and patient care and, since 1990, has been recognized (by U.S. News & World Report) as one of the nation's top 10 centers for cardiology and heart surgery. In Spring 2002, the Denton A. Cooley Building was dedicated, further enhancing the level of quality cardiovascular care. The 10-story building features a 500-seat auditorium, a Telemedicine Conference Center, a museum, Heart Information Center, 10 CV operating rooms, three floors of patient rooms, a Critical Care Unit, a Progressive Care Unit, a Transplant Care Unit, and CV research labs.
Beyond cardiovascular care, St. Luke's excellence extends to 23 clinical services covering more than 41 specialties. Also, advanced treatment programs are available in orthopedics, oncology, digestive disorders, and neurosciences. In addition to being one of only 30 referral centers in the U.S. for high-risk obstetrics, St. Luke's also has a nationally and internationally recognized liver transplant team.
The 29-story St. Luke's Medical Tower, which is home to more than 200 medical specialists, is connected by a sky bridge to the hospital. Several floors are devoted to outpatient services, including radiology, endoscopy, urology and cardiology, as well as ambulatory surgery and rehabilitation.