Maury Regional Heart Center

Surgical services provided by Vanderbilt Heart

As southern Middle Tennessee's only Heart Center, Maury Regional provides a comprehensive array of cardiac services. From interventional procedures to our partnership with Vanderbilt Heart to provide cardiothoracic surgery, we have a highly skilled and experienced team that strives to achieve the best possible outcomes. For more information about clinical services and outcomes, view our Quality Report. Below is a list of the services offered in our Heart Center:

Interventional Services

The cardiac catheterization laboratory allows the experienced cardiologists on our medical staff to investigate heart conditions with amazing accuracy.  The physicians have the expertise to treat heart conditions and perform interventional procedures—such as angioplasty and stenting—to prevent heart attacks and are assisted by our highly trained nursing and radiologic staff.

Internal cardiac defibrillator and pacemaker procedures are performed when patients need assistance controlling their heart rate or rhythm. Performing these procedures in the catheterization laboratory eliminates the need for an operating room and expedites recovery time.

In addition, numerous peripheral vascular procedures can be performed to treat blockages in blood vessels outside of the heart.

Surgical Services

When heart surgery is needed, an experienced heart surgeon and a highly skilled surgical team are complemented by the latest technology and equipment available. Surgeons from Vanderbilt Heart perform all the operations including coronary artery bypass grafting, valve repairs and replacements, aortic aneurysm repairs, arrhythmia surgery, as well as lung and esophagus surgery. Vanderbilt Heart provides two cardiothoracic surgeons for each heart surgery at Maury Regional Hospital. The Heart Center consistently performs endoscopic (minimally invasive) vein harvesting for bypass surgery, eliminating the need for an extensive incision in the leg. The Vanderbilt surgeons at Maury Regional Hospital perform minimally invasive valve surgery, just as they do at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Pulmonary & Critical Care Services

Maury Regional Hospital's comprehensive pulmonary services for heart patients include a laboratory where cardiopulmonary stress testing, pulmonary function tests, physiological monitoring, pharmacological stress tests, exercise tolerance evaluations and pulmonary education are performed.

Maury Regional Hospital offers 24 critical care beds among three critical care units: Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Critical Care Unit (CCU) and Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU). Physicians specializing in critical care and a nursing staff trained in critical care are available to provide 24-hour care. A cardiovascular step-down and an intensive care step-down unit are additional components of critical care for patients requiring a less acute level of care.

Cardiac & Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Maury Regional has designed a comprehensive cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation program aimed at getting patients back to normal activities as quickly and safely as possible. The program combines monitored exercise with education for people who have had a heart attack, a cardiac surgery or procedure, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation includes education concerning risk factors, medications, breathing exercises, stress management, and other heart- and lung-related topics. Rehabilitation is provided under a physician’s written order and may be scheduled by calling 931.380.4094.

To learn more about cardiac rehabilitation, click here.

To learn more about pulmonary rehabilitation, click here.