Heart Center

Heart Center Overview

San Antonio Regional Hospital Heart Center is known for its exceptional cardiovascular services and continually ranks among the nation's top hospitals for cardiac care and cardiovascular surgery. The hospital holds a Chest Pain Center Accreditation with Primary PCI from The American College of Cardiology, which was awarded after a rigorous onsite evaluation determined the hospital’s exceptional competency in evaluating, diagnosing, and treating patients who may be experiencing a heart attack.

San Antonio is also designated as a STEMI Receiving Center by the Inland County Emergency Medical Agency (ICEMA), based on the experience and expertise of our medical team and the advanced technology and processes in place to rapidly handle heart attack patients.

San Antonio Regional Hospital has received the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines® – Stroke Gold Plus Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll, which recognizes the hospital's commitment to delivering evidence-based, life-saving stroke care and ensuring patients receive timely, appropriate treatment based on nationally recognized, research-based guidelines.

San Antonio Regional Hospital has been named among U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals as High Performing in Heart Bypass Surgery, the highest distinction a hospital can earn in the Procedures & Conditions ratings. U.S. News evaluated more than 4,400 hospitals using objective measures such as risk-adjusted mortality rates, preventable complications, and level of nursing care, and only about one-third earned an award.

San Antonio Regional Hospital's cardiovascular TAVR team has reached an impressive milestone, performing more than 500 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedures since the program launched in 2016. TAVR is a minimally invasive treatment for aortic stenosis in which a new valve is delivered to the heart through a small incision, offering patients a faster recovery, shorter hospital stay, and quicker return to daily activities than traditional open-heart surgery.