Your gift will help us continue our outstanding heart attack care.  In 2007, Barnes-Jewish was one of only 17 hospitals nationwide—and the only one in Missouri—reported by Medicare to have superior, above-average heart attack survival rates.

Your gift can fund breakthrough technology and support innovative, cross-disciplinary, clinical research among teams of heart surgeons and cardiologists that will lead to new therapies and revolutionize standard procedures in the fight against heart disease, America’s #1 killer.

Your gift can help us continue developing within our Heart and Vascular Center a seamless, integrated model of cardiovascular care that is the best in St. Louis.

Recent Heart Breakthroughs and Novel Research Supported by Gifts to the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation:

Barnes-Jewish was one of only 15 centers nationwide that conducted percutaneous valve replacement trials

Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement
We are one of only 15 centers nationwide that conducted trials for percutaneous valve replacement, a minimally-invasive procedure that replaces the heart’s aortic valve through a tiny incision in the skin.  

This approach can help certain high-risk patient who would not benefit from open heart surgery, and it may reshape the standard approach to treating the heart’s aortic valve!

Atrial Fibrillation Surgery

Ralph Damiano Jr, MD, Chief of Cardiac Surgery and John M. Shoenberg Chair in Cardiovascular Disease (endowed through the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation)

Atrial fibrillation is a common heart condition that causes rapid, uncontrolled beats.  Barnes-Jewish has been the center of advances in treating this condition, led by Ralph Damiano, MD.

Our cure rate for atrial fibrillation is the highest in the world.  A procedure developed at Barnes-Jewish to eliminate it called the Cox-Maze is performed on more than 10,000 patients a year.  Find out more more in this video.