Seton is proud to be the home of Central Texas' most comprehensive heart care program, the Seton Heart Center. Ours is the area's only transplant program, one that has provided 116 new hearts to area residents over the past 10 years, one of only 82 centers certified by Medicare for heart transplantation, and regarded nationally as successful both in quality outcomes and low cost. Seton just received data that shows our one-year survival rates for coronary artery bypass and coronary valve replacement patients is higher than any other Central Texas provider, including hospitals in San Antonio. The Seton Heart Center includes a full range of leading edge technologies. Diagnostic procedures include heart catheterization techniques through sophisticated imaging and thalium screens.
Treatments range from open heart surgery and transplants to electrophysiology.
Seton participates in numerous research protocols that bring the latest medical thinking, techniques and equipment to Austin even as they are being developed. As a network, Seton is committed to providing a full continuum of heart services, from transplants to prevention. Most of us will be touched at some time by health care for our hearts, but perhaps not in such a dramatic way as Julia Sanders. Essential care, ranging from preventive exercise and nutrition counseling, screening for hypertension and high cholesterol, judicious use of drug therapy by physicians, appropriate rehabilitation and possible surgery are all parts of a healthcare network. Heart disease remains Austin's second largest killer and deprives many Central Texans of quality of life.