Heart and Vascular Care

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When it comes to the most important muscle in your body, MercyOne is committed to providing compassionate, life-saving care when you need it. Our team of highly skilled physicians and cutting-edge treatment options are here to empower you. From proactive screenings to advanced diagnostics and intricate interventions, we provide excellent, personalized care. With our state-of-the-art facilities and collaborative approach, we're your trusted partners, guiding you towards a healthy heart and keeping you living your best life. When it comes to comprehensive heart and vascular care, MercyOne is by your side every step of the way.

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Personalized heart care, where you need it

Locations and heart programs across MercyOne provide the highest-quality heart and vascular care in Iowa.

MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the No. 1 hospital in Des Moines, with high performing ratings in:

  • Aortic valve surgery
  • Heart attack
  • Heart bypass surgery
  • Heart failure

MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center also received Target: BP™ Gold+ recognition jointly presented by the American Heart Association and the American Medical Association.  MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center was named one of the nation’s 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals by Fortune and PINC AI.

MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center is proud to offer the region’s most experienced, most advanced and most comprehensive cardiovascular center – MercyOne Iowa Heart Center. As the region’s recognized leader for heart and vascular care, MercyOne Iowa Heart Center strives to set national benchmarks for quality and safety and performs its complex procedures at MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center.

MercyOne Iowa Heart Center has multiple outreach facilities throughout Iowa that provide accessible cardiovascular care. With board-certified cardiologists and experienced heart and vascular teams that use leading-edge techniques, procedures and technology to give you the best care to keep you living your best life. MercyOne Iowa Heart Center received achievement awards:

  • The American Heart Association’s Check. Change. Control. Cholesterol™ Gold.
  • Target: BP™ Gold recognition jointly presented by the American Heart Association and the American Medical Association.

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MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center is the region's recognized leader for heart care and the only Dubuque medical center with a comprehensive heart program that includes open heart surgery. Nowhere in the region is there a more experienced, more advanced, more comprehensive cardiovascular center than at MercyOne. Find a cardiologist in Dubuque.

MercyOne Dubuque Heart and Vascular Center has been honored with multiple awards from the American Heart Association:

  • Get With The Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus with Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
  • Mission: Lifeline - STEMI Receiving Gold Plus
  • Mission: Lifeline - NSTEMI Gold

When it comes to your heart, you can rest assured that at MercyOne Clinton Medical Center you’ll get the expert care you need with the added benefit for staying close to home. Our board-certified cardiologists and experienced heart and vascular team provide a sophisticated level of care and expertise. Find a cardiologist in Clinton.

MercyOne Elkader Medical Center is committed to high quality, personalized health care close to home. We provide cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation programs, an anticoagulation clinic with expert cardiologists from Medical Associates Clinic and Health Plans from Dubuque. Learn more.

MercyOne North Iowa Heart Center is the region’s leader for heart care, providing north Iowa and southern Minnesota award-winning care close to home. At MercyOne you’ll have access to a full spectrum of advanced trained specialists and life-long personalized cardiology.

MercyOne North Iowa Heart Center has received recognition for providing quality care:

  • Mission: Lifeline® Gold Plus Get with The Guidelines - Stroke Quality Achievement Award for its commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines.
  • Blue Distinction Center+ for Cardiac Care by Wellmark of Iowa for meeting quality and safety criteria as well as being more cost-effective compared to other hospitals that provide cardiac care.

The heart program at MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center is accredited as a Chest Pain Center with Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) through the American College of Cardiology (ACC). Hospitals that have earned ACC Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI Accreditation have proven exceptional competency in treating patients with heart attack symptoms and have primary PCI available 24/7 every day of the year. PCI is a non-surgical procedure that opens narrowed or blocked coronary arteries with a balloon or stent to relieve symptoms of heart disease or reduce heart damage during or after a heart attack. 

We provide the critical heart care you need with cardiology clinics in Cedar FallsOelwein and Waterloo

Take good care of your heart and blood vessels by visiting the award-winning Genesis Heart Institute. You’ll benefit from a team of top cardiologists, surgeons, vascular specialists and other medical professionals who combine their knowledge and expertise to provide well-rounded treatment. As a regional referral center, we take some of the toughest cardiovascular cases in eastern Iowa and western Illinois. No matter your medical needs, we’ll help you maximize your heart health and quality of life.

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MercyOne Siouxland Heart and Vascular Center brings together cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons and vascular surgeons with advanced technology to provide comprehensive care in a state-of-the-art facility and out-reach services. Our one-stop-shop includes physician clinics, diagnostics, rehabilitation, and catheterization and electrophysiology laboratories all in one area.

MercyOne Siouxland Heart and Vascular Center has been honored with multiple awards, distinctions and certifications including:

  • U.S. News and World Report high performing medical center for heart failure care
  • American Heart Association
    • Mission: Lifeline® NSTEMI Gold Quality Achievement Award
    • Mission: Lifeline® Gold Plus STEMI Receiving Quality Achievement Award
    • Get With The Guidelines® Heart Failure Gold Plus
  • Platinum Performance Achievement Award from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry
  • Intersocietal Accreditation Commission for Echocardiography non-invasive testing
      Mike Pesky

      At the age of 45, Mike had to have his first heart procedure - quadruple bypass surgery. “When they told me, I was surprised because I thought that’s way too young to be having bypass surgery,” he said. “Because of the high percentage of blockages, they told me if I had a heart attack, I might not survive it. That’s a real wake up call.” After his first procedure Mike said everything was going well. But, about 24 years later, his heart issues came back.

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      Heart and vascular conditions

      • Aneurysm (aortic and thoracic)
      • Aortic insufficiency
      • Arrhythmia/Afib
      • Atrial septal defect
      • Cardiomyopathy
      • Carotid artery disease
      • Congenital heart defects
      • Congestive heart failure
      • Coronary artery disease
      • Deep vein thrombosis
      • Heart block
      • Heart palpitations
      • High blood pressure
      • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
      • Marfan syndrome
      • Mitral stenosis
      • Mitral valve regurgitation
      • Pericarditis/myocarditis
      • Peripheral arterial disease (pad)
      • Peripheral vascular disease
      • Pulmonary hypertension
      • Pulmonary stenosis
      • Renal artery stenosis
      • Sick sinus syndrome
      • Syncope
      • Tachycardia
      • Valvular heart disease
      • Wolf Parkins White Syndrome
      • Women’s heart disease

      Treatments and procedures

      At MercyOne, we use the latest technology, procedures and treatment options lead by our teams of highly skilled cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, interventional radiologists and advanced trained clinicians who are committed to providing patients with compassionate, personalized and effective care for cardiovascular disease. Common treatments and procedures include:

      • Automatic implantable cardiac defibrillators
      • Coronary artery bypass
      • Diagnostic cardiac catheterization
      • Echocardiogram
      • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
      • EKOS
      • Electrophysiology study (EPS)
      • Electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG)
      • Ep ablations (corrective treatment for AFib/Aflutter/SVT/VT)
      • Heart pacemaker insertion
      • Heart valve replacement or repair
      • Holter and event monitors
      • Interventional radiology procedures
      • Interventional cardiac procedures - angioplasty
      • Magnetic resonance angiography
      • Minimally invasive heart valve surgery
      • Nuclear cardiography
      • Off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery
      • Pacemakers and ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillators) implants
      • Stenting
      • Stress test
      • Surgical interventions
      • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
      • Valve repair and valve replacement
      • Ventriuclar assist device (LVAD)
      • Watchman/Lariat – left atrial appendage occlusion

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