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The Heart Center at Woodland Heights
 For
more than 80 years, Woodland Heights Medical Center (WHMC)
has been serving the East Texas region. Our hospital was the
first healthcare facility in Lufkin, and we’ve been the
first to bring many of the tremendous medical advancements
in cardiac care to East Texas.
Recognized as a leader in cardiac care, The Heart Center
draws upon the strength of its entire cardiac care
team—physicians, nurses, technicians, and support staff—to
deliver high-quality care that emphasizes the needs of
patients and their families.
Our history speaks for itself! We were the first in deep
East Texas to successfully perform many cardiac procedures,
including: Cardiac catheterization, Open heart surgery,
Balloon angioplasty, Drug-eluting stent, Brachytherapy,
installation of an internal cardiac defibrillator and the
installation of a permanent biventricular pacemaker.
Woodland Heights also was the first to perform the plaque
excision procedure.
Woodland Heights has been a major catalyst in shaping the
evolution and growth of Lufkin’s acclaimed medical community
by building a national reputation as a heart care provider.
Woodland Heights Unveils Another First in
Heart Care
 Woodland
Heights Medical Center recently announced another East Texas
“first” in heart care. This morning the first implantation
of the Kronos LV-T implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD)
was performed at the Lufkin facility by Dr. Vic Mangla, a
Cardiologist with the Heart Institute of East Texas.
According to Dr. Mangla, this state-of-the-art technology is
a wireless heart failure monitor that continuously tracks
and monitors the status of heart failure patients. Six
proven variables (mean heart rate, mean heart rate at rest,
patient activity, ventricular ectopy, percentage of CRT, and
arterial arrhythmias) are automatically tracked and trended
daily to give the physician insight into the patient’s
improvement or even impending decompensation - before they
end up in the emergency room.
Read the
press release.
Technology - We Have the
Most Advanced Available
Our highly skilled cardiac team provides a
comprehensive approach to cardiovascular care that includes
diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention.
 We
have the only digital bi-plane catheterization lab in deep
East Texas. With this new technology,
physicians receive high-quality, well-defined cardiac and
vascular images. This technology enables the images to
be burned to a CD and also emailed to
physicians. We also have DICOM archiving, which allows
images to be stored for years.
The catheterization lab holding area is equipped with the
same technology as the ICU and Step Down Care, which ensures
patients receive the same level of care without having to
move from the cath lab area.
The First Plaque
Excision in East Texas is performed
at Woodland Heights
Medical Center
Dr. Robert Hallett recently
preformed the new plaque excision procedure which removed
the offending clog of plaque completely from the body, so
that the health benefits are realized almost
immediately.
Lance Jones, CEO of Woodland
Heights Medical Center, said he was proud that his facility
was home to the first-ever plaque excision performed in
Lufkin.
"As a hospital on the leading edge of cardiac care, it's
exciting for us to add this procedure to our lineup. The
great reputation Woodland Heights already enjoys is just
getting better," Jones said.
"We think this is an outstanding day for Lufkin and for East
Texas, and of course we're glad to be a part of it."
Read more about it in the
Lufkin daily News.
Services in the
Heart Center
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Non-Invasive Tests |
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Invasive
Procedures |
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Treadmill stress Test |
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Angioplasty |
| EKG |
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Intracoronary
Stent |
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Echocardiogram |
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Pacemaker
Insertion |
| Holter
Monitoring |
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Bypass Surgery |
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Nuclear Imaging |
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Valve Replacement
Surgery |
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