Saint Louis University Hospital’s team was recently recognized for efforts in delivering care that’s consistent with the American Heart Association’s most up-to-date scientific guidelines for the treatment of coronary artery disease, heart failure and stroke. Triple gold performance achievement in all three Get with the GuidelinesSM quality improvement programs is…
In 2012, Saint Louis University Hospital was awarded the Start! Fit-Friendly award from the American Heart Association for efforts to help their employees lead heart-healthy lives. Programs available to employees through Tenet and through the Saint Louis University help implement various activities and programs that encourage physical activity, nutrition and…
Saint Louis University Hospital is the ONLY hospital in Missouri and Illinois, to achieve the Gold Plus award for Heart Attack, Heart Failure and Stroke from the American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines national quality program. Since the program began in 2007, SLU Hospital has achieved this each year.
The cardiac catheterization lab was opened in 1951 after J. Gerard Mudd, MD, returned to St. Louis after learning heart catheterization at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. The lab initially focused on diagnosing valvular heart disease my measuring intracardiac pressures until 1958, with the advent of coronary angiography. It was originally…
In 1956, C. Rollins Hanlon, MD (above), led a 12-person team in performing the first open-heart surgery in the lower Midwest region and established the surgery department as a regional research and clinical center for the study and treatment of cardiac…
In 1969, Vallee L. Willman, MD, succeeded C. Rollins Hanlon, MD, as department of surgery chief at Saint Louis University. A post he would hold for the the next 26 years. That year, he led a team of surgeons that were among the first to…
Vallee L. Willman, MD, performed St. Louis’ first heart transplant in 1971 at Firmin Desloge Hospital (now Saint Louis University Hospital). The recipient was Vincent Dobelmann Jr., 44, a retired meatcutter and father of seven who lived for 311 days post-transplant, exceeding the average life expectancy of five months. He…