About St. Paul Heart Clinic
The Mission Of All
St. Paul Heart Clinic, located in Minnesota, will provide the highest level of professional and personal patient-centered care. St. Paul Heart Clinic will exhibit leadership and be a resource to our community and referring physicians in the areas of cardiovascular medicine, education and research. We will promote a value-driven professionally satisfying group practice environment for our physicians and staff.
Why St. Paul Heart Clinic?
Since 1974, St. Paul Heart Clinic has been serving patients from throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin. We work in close partnership with primary care physicians and heart doctors in Minnesota who ask us to assist in the heart care of their patients. Today, the St. Paul Heart Clinic is one of the largest, most advanced heart clinics in the region with 36 cardiologists who are organized into sections providing subspecialty heart care in Minnesota and expertise in noninvasive cardiology, interventional cardiology and electrophysiology.
When you are a patient at the St. Paul Heart Clinic, you will find our approach to be as a “group practice” whereby cardiologists, nurse practitioners, nurse clinicians, and the entire support staff work as a team in providing quality heart care, enhanced service and superior clinical outcomes. One of the advantages of being a large heart clinic is that it allows for specialization within cardiology. The breath and depth of care and services available at St. Paul Heart Clinic allows patients to access expertise seen only in the most sophisticated cardiovascular practices in the country.
St. Paul Heart Clinic Milestones
- Founded 1974
- Minnesota’s first mobile cardiac ultrasound service established in 1978
- Dr. Victor Tschida introduced percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1981
- Dr. Gregory Granrud performed first implantable defibrillator in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1985
- Dr. Kenneth Baran becomes the world’s second cardiologist to perform “pericardial window” procedure in 1991
- Creation of St. Paul Arrhythmia Center ushers in era of formal electrophysiology subsection in 1992
- Comprehensive outpatient nuclear cardiology program developed in 1998
- St. Paul Heart Clinic echocardiography lab is one of the first five echocardiography laboratories in the United States to be granted accreditation by the Intersocietal Commission for Accreditation of Echocardiography in 1998
- St. Paul Heart Clinic nuclear imaging laboratory is the first in Minnesota to be granted accreditation by Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Nuclear Medicine Laboratories in 1999
- St. Paul Heart Clinic formal Research Division established in 1999
- In 2001, the Acute Cardiac Network becomes one of Minnesota’s first programs that allows for immediate, direct transfer of patients to the catherization laboratory. Later name change to Level One Program to conform to national cardiology nomenclature.
- St. Paul Heart Clinic is the first independent cardiology practice in the world to offer Dual Source CT technology in 2006. Our adjacent advanced cardiovascular MRI enables access to appropriate technology to every patient, every day.
Hospital Affiliations
To better serve the greater St. Paul metropolitan regions in Minnesota, St. Paul Heart Clinic fosters relationships with area hospitals:
- St. John’s Hospital – HealthEast
- St. Joseph’s Hospital – HealthEast
- United Hospital – Allina
- Woodwinds Hospital – HealthEast
- Lakeview Hospital – Stillwater
We encourage you to explore the pages of our website to learn more about our 10 convenient locations for heart care, our unique specialty heart clinic offerings, our comprehensive diagnostic services and current Research Division clinical trials.
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