Built Around Heart and Vascular
We are transforming the way care is delivered to patients.
The UF Health Heart & Vascular Hospital has been designed to optimize the patient experience by allowing for expanded collaboration among cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, thoracic surgeons and vascular surgeons, which will ultimately lead to better patient care.
UF Health’s heart, thoracic and vascular teams are proud of the innovations and accomplishments the program offers to patients in the state of Florida and beyond, and are excited to expand faculty and staff resources with the new hospital to continue this path.
Highlights include:
- Multidisciplinary team-based care with minimally invasive approaches and close collaboration.
- Leadership and expertise of the team — we solve the tough problems other physicians can’t.
- Pioneering therapies and technologies, with a series of first-in-Florida achievements.
- One of only 16 sites nationwide participating in a clinical trial for the XVIVO Lung Perfusion System, which improves the function of donor lungs.
- Nation’s first computerized cardiac catheterization lab, equipped to treat adults and children.
- One of the first in Florida to implant transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
- Joint Commission-certified ventricular assist device program for disease-specific care.
- Fully accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI & Resuscitation designation by the American College of Cardiology.
- Availability of clinical trials with the latest medical devices.
New facility
The UF Health Heart & Vascular Hospital is an exceptional facility that matches the world-class care provided to UF Health heart and vascular patients. It supports the future of surgery with minimally invasive approaches, encourages collaboration among care teams and provides patients and their families with a calm and comfortable space for healing.
Florida facts and firsts for UF Health heart and vascular services:
- 1958 – Florida’s first cardiac catheterization
- 1959 – Florida’s first open-heart surgery
- 1985 – Open-heart transplant
- 1994 – Florida’s first adult lung transplant
- 1999 – Florida’s first radiofrequency catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
- 2000 – Thoracic endovascular aortic repair
- 2000 – Thoracic aorta stent graft
- 2004 – Hybrid mini-maze treatment for atrial fibrillation
- 2010 – Fenestrated stent grafts for thoracoabdominal aneurysms
- 2012 – Transcatheter aortic valve procedure
- 2014 – Branched stent grafts for minimally invasive aortic therapy
- 2015 – Arch aortic stent grafts
- 2015- Ex-vivo lung perfusion procedure
- 2016 – Ventricular assist device using latest generation HeartMate III
- 2017 – Aortic arch branched stent graft
- 2017 – Transcatheter mitral valve repair
