Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute offers the most comprehensive heart and vascular care in Kansas City. We provide the full range of cardiovascular services, from disease prevention to heart transplantation. At Saint Luke’s we use the latest technology to provide a full range of services and treatments.
We provide:
- More specialized physicians
- More experience
- More innovative treatment options for patients
Saint Luke’s Hospital is proud to be the third hospital in the U.S to achieve Comprehensive Cardiac Center certification from The Joint Commission. In 2023, we completed our 1,000th heart transplant, making us one of only 23 programs in the country to achieve this milestone.
Services
- Adult congenital heart disease
- Amyloid Program
- Athletic Heart Clinic
- Atrial Fibrillation Clinic
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Cardiothoracic surgery
- Cardiovascular critical care
- Cardiovascular imaging
- Charles & Barbara Duboc Cardio Wellness Center
- Electrophysiology
- Extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
- Heart conditions in pregnancy
- Heart failure management
- Heart transplant
- Interventional cardiology
- Michael & Marlys Haverty Cardio Metabolic Center of Excellence
- Muriel I. Kauffman Women’s Heart Center
- Structural cardiology
- Valve Program
- Vascular Program
- Vein Program
- Ventricular assist devices
Research and Clinical Trials
Cardiovascular research continues to be a major focus at Saint Luke’s Health System. The program currently encompasses research programs in each of the major clinical areas, including interventional cardiology, cardiac surgery, heart failure and cardiac transplantation, cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac imaging, and preventive cardiology/lipid and diabetes management.
In addition to supporting clinical research, the cardiovascular research program encompasses centers of excellence and core laboratories in:
- Cardiovascular outcomes research
- Health economics and technology assessment
- Intravascular imaging
- Noninvasive imaging
These centers of excellence currently serve as core laboratories for a wide range of studies that often involve collaboration with other leading cardiovascular centers and researchers from around the world. MAHI continues to serve as one of the four Analytic Centers, along with Duke, Harvard, and Yale, for the American College of Cardiology’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry.
