Heart & Vascular Care

Our Approach to Your Heart Care

We seek out the safest, most effective treatments available, so you know you’re in good hands. Our facilities and experienced staff help you feel comfortable before any diagnostic test or procedure you may need. 

Heart Doctors in San Antonio

While you’re in our care, you may have many people on your team. You will find all of these health care providers right here at University Health:

• Cardiologists (heart doctors) may include interventional cardiologists, electrophysiologists and preventive cardiologists
• Cardiac surgeons
• Cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon, who performs heart surgery
• Cardiac care nurses
• Imaging specialists
• Perfusionist, who operates the heart-lung bypass machine during heart bypass surgery
• Physical or occupational therapist

Excellence in Cardiac and Vascular Care

Our heart team has been awarded for its excellence in heart care. These awards serve as proof of our commitment to you, from intake to discharge and rehab.

• Three-time Magnet-recognized from the American Nurses Credentialing Center
• 2024 Gold Level Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) Award for Excellence in Life Support
• 2023 STRAC Comprehensive Resuscitation Center
• 2023 Platinum Performance Achievement Award from the American College of Cardiology
• Accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention from the American College of Cardiology
• Certified Cardiac Rehab Program from the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
• American College of Cardiology Cath lab accreditation
• Center for complex arrhythmias like VT ablation
• Accredited by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) for Adult and Pediatric Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology and Vascular Imaging
• Center for Lead Extraction
• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association Center of Excellence
• Institute of Quality for Cardiac Surgery, designated by Aetna in 2022