Expert Heart Team review for Louisville area patients. Virtual consultations with 48-hour turnaround.
Louisville holds a unique place in cardiac surgery history — Jewish Hospital at UofL Health was where the world's first successful artificial heart implantation (AbioCor) was performed. Today, Norton Heart & Vascular Institute is the city's highest-volume cardiac surgery program, with particular strength in valve repair and coronary revascularization. Jewish Hospital continues to be a center for advanced heart failure therapies and transplantation. The metro performs approximately 1,900 cardiac procedures annually. Louisville's cardiac surgery market is well-served for its size, but patients with rare or ultra-complex conditions may need to consider Cincinnati (90 minutes), Nashville (3 hours), or Cleveland Clinic (5 hours). The challenge is determining when local expertise is sufficient and when the added complexity warrants a higher-volume center — a decision that is difficult to make without independent expert guidance. WhiteGloveMD provides Louisville patients with the objective analysis to make this determination confidently. Our Heart Team benchmarks surgical recommendations against both local outcomes and national data, giving patients a clear picture of whether to proceed locally or consider alternatives.
Louisville patients benefit from our ability to objectively compare local outcomes against national benchmarks for their specific procedure. Our Heart Team removes the guesswork from the "stay local vs. travel" decision.
48-hour turnaround. Dual-physician Heart Team review. Starting at $495.