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Carondelet Heart & Vascular Institute

Welcome to Carondelet Heart & Vascular Institute

Carondelet Heart & Vascular Institute is Southern Arizona’s only free-standing acute care facility dedicated to providing high quality cardiac and vascular care.

Carondelet Heart & Vascular Institute offers a full range of cardiovascular testing and interventional cardiology procedures along with a comprehensive array of both cardiothoracic and vascular surgical procedures. Focused efforts are placed on endovascular techniques, minimally-invasive surgical approaches, and beating heart coronary bypass surgery, as well as disease prevention education and support. Carondelet Heart & Vascular Institute has 60 private patient rooms and is one of only three Accredited Chest Pain Centers in southern Arizona.

Highlights

  • Designated by the Arizona Department of Health Services, Bureau of EMS and Trauma System, as Cardiac Arrest Center
  • 60-bed facility totally dedicated to cardiothoracic and vascular services
  • 14-bed Intensive Care Unit 
  • 24/7 Emergency Department with one of only three Accredited Chest Pain Centers in Southern Arizona
  • Modern cardiac surgery offering off-pump Bypass and minimally invasive cardiac surgery 
  • Two catheterization suites; one electrophysiology room; one special procedures/cath lab room 
  • HeartSaver CT – for early diagnosis of heart disease 

Carondelet Heart & Vascular Institute provides personalized service in a comfortable, compassionate environment. All patient rooms are private. Meals are prepared in compliance with each patient’s dietary restrictions and can be ordered when desired. Accommodations are provided for family members who wish to stay overnight and wireless Internet access allows patients to stay in touch with family, friends, and business associates. The concierge service can provide information about the hospital’s services or services outside the hospital.


*Tucson Heart Hospital was renamed Carondelet Heart & Vascular Institute on October 6, 2010.  

 

Interpreter Language Services Available at ALL Carondelet Hospitals

Carondelet Health Network is proud to have a robust language access plan in place to meet the needs of its Limited English Proficient (LEP), Deaf and Hard of Hearing patient populations.  Through a partnership with Language Services Associates, the following interpretation services are available at St. Mary’s Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Carondelet Heart & Vascular Institute and Holy Cross Hospital:

  • Telephonic interpreters available on demand 24/7 in more than 200 language offerings
  • Video interpreters available on demand 24/7 in Spanish and American Sign Language
  • Pre-scheduled video interpreters available 24/7 in Nepali, Burmese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Korean, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Somali, Cantonese and Mandarin
  • LSA also supports Carondelet in the professional training of bilingual clinicians in interpreter services

For more information on Carondelet’s language access plan, please contact each hospital through its main number.