The Most Progressive and Experienced Heart Specialists in the Metro Area. 

Your heart will beat 2.5 billion times during your lifetime. Doesn’t it deserve the most progressive and experienced team of heart specialists in the St. Louis region? The SSM Heart Institute features over 100 cardiologists, electrophysiologists, and cardiothoracic surgeons who provide the most inpatient heart care in St. Louis. In fact, more St. Louisans choose us for open-heart surgery, angioplasty and stent procedures than any other area heart program. And we perform beating heart surgeries at twice the rate of the national average. For unequalled accessibility, the best care and the best results, turn to the SSM Heart Institute.

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Nobody Treats Heart Attacks Faster Than SSM St. Mary's Health Center
In 2009, the SSM Heart Institute and ER teams at St. Mary's did what few other hospitals across the country could. They opened heart attack patients' blocked coronary arteries in under 90 minutes every time.  Learn more.

SSM St. Mary's Heart Team