Message from our Founder
Welcome to the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital website. In keeping with our mission to reduce the devastating toll of cardiovascular disease, we are pleased to provide a wealth of reliable information. For example, you are invited to browse through our web pages to:
We're fully engaged in The Heart of DiscoverySM to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease and to share new knowledge worldwide. Never before have physicians had so many options to treat cardiovascular disease and new studies offer hope for future generations. Our pursuit of discovery will continue until the threat of cardiovascular disease is removed from all our lives.
If you don't find the answer to your questions here, please feel free to call our Heart Information Center at 1-800-292-2221, Callers outside the United States, should call 1-832-355-6700.
Thank you for your interest in Texas Heart Institute.
Sincerely yours,
Denton A. Cooley, MD
Mission Statement
The mission of the Texas Heart Institute is to reduce the devastating toll of cardiovascular disease through innovative programs in research, education and improved patient care.
Texas Heart Institute is a nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Denton A. Cooley in 1962. Its location in and affiliations with St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and Texas Children's Hospital assured that all age groups would be treated and freed the Institute of the burden of financing a health care facility. Patient care information is available here.
Texas Heart Institute is a nonprofit organization in the truest sense. Unlike most institutions that have a source of operating revenue, Texas Heart Institute relies solely on government grants, research contracts and, above all, philanthropy. In fact, donations from grateful patients, foundations, corporations, physicians, and the general public account for more than half of the Institute's annual operating budget.
