Cardiology Services

The SMH Heart Center at Slidell Memorial Hospital has the most experienced cardiologists in the region and offers cutting-edge services to our heart patients. These include:

• Multi-slice CT scanning, a noninvasive procedure that can help detect problems early
• Advanced, full-service Cath Labs
• Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery
• Valve replacement
• Off-pump bypass
• Electrophysiology Lab
• Drug eluting stents
• AICD and pacemaker implantation
• Cardiac stress tests
• Echocardiography

Slidell Memorial Hospital offers advanced facilities, including:

• 2 heart surgery suites
• 13-bed medical intensive care
• 6-bed surgical intensive care
• 38-bed cardiac/medical telemetry unit

• 12-bed pre- and post-cardiac surgery and intervention unit
   

  Slidell Memorial Hospital's partnership with Ochsner Health 

Through Slidell Memorial Hospital's partnership with Ochsner Health, we are able to better meet your healthcare needs by ensuring even more services and enhanced technology are available locally.

Slidell Memorial Hospital Main Campus serves as the location to care for more complex (invasive and procedure-based) cardiology cases. Heart and vascular services that are non-invasive, such as diagnostic stress tests are provided at Slidell Memorial Hospital East Campus. 
 

Working together, Slidell Memorial Hospital and Ochsner Health deliver your care in Slidell while enhancing quality and access to specialized heart care. This partnership enables Slidell Memorial Hospital to offer an expanded menu of cardiology services including advanced cardiac procedures, diagnostic cardiac catheterizations, peripheral vascular studies and coronary bypass surgery. 
 

Comprehensive care means helping you get back to doing the things you love after you leave the hospital. Slidell Memorial Hospital cardiologists and medical staff treat hospital patients to help them prepare to return home and, if needed, continue therapy on an outpatient basis.

What cardiac rehabilitation services are offered at Slidell Memorial Hospital?

• Physical therapy
• Education
• Risk factor modification
• Vocational support

What disorders do the cardiac and pulmonary rehab programs at Slidell Memorial Hospital treat?

• Coronary artery disease/angina
• Heart attack, bypass or heart valve surgery
• Stents and angioplasty
• Heart transplantation
• Congestive heart failure
• COPD
• Asthma
• Bronchitis
• Emphysema
• Cystic fibrosis
• Inflammatory lung conditions such as sarcoidosis, pulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension