Heart Services at St. Francis Medical Center

Elite Treatment, Compassionate Care for Your Heart

When it comes to matters of heart health, your heart’s in the right place at St. Francis Medical Center. Our cardiovascular experts are committed to preventing heart disease and providing patients with the latest and most effective treatments.

St. Francis is accredited as a Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI by the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the only recipient in the Monroe area for the Platinum Performance Award thanks to our high standard of heart attack care.

Our highly skilled team provides care that includes:

• Patient-focused, collaborative surgical treatment
• A customized care plan for patients' unique health needs
• Northeast Louisiana’s most advanced hybrid operating room, with innovative technology and imaging capabilities that help to improve patient outcomes and quality of care
• The region’s first and only provider of the left atrial appendage closure procedure for patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation
• Percutaneous (through the skin) valve replacements or repairs, such as the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and mitraclip
• The region's leader in cardiac catheterization and coronary interventions for high-risk patients
• Endovascular procedures (using a catheter inserted through the skin to diagnose and treat vascular disease), including endovascular repair of aortic aneurysms in the abdomen or chest (EVAR, TEVAR), endovascular repair of aortic dissections, stent-graft implantations, endovascular treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD) with angioplasty and stenting, embolization of visceral artery aneurysms and vascular malformations and hybrid (part open and part endovascular) intervention to treat complex vascular problems.
• Traditional open-heart surgery