Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center > About Us (The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas)

About Us

Highlights

Located in The Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center in Houston
More than 75 physicians and more than 500 employees
Ten operating rooms, eight catheterization labs, 154 acute-care beds, 48 ICU beds and 30 transplant beds
Recipient of more than $15 million in research support annually, from sources including the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association and others

The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center is a multidisciplinary center of excellence dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of heart and vascular diseases.

Our home — within The Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center — places us at the center of a long tradition of innovation in cardiac and vascular medicine. Physicians at Methodist and in the Texas Medical Center invented and perfected many of the advanced heart surgeries and therapies that are today considered routine.

Our namesake, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, is a symbol of the remarkable potential of modern cardiac medicine. Our physicians and staff carry on in the spirit of his example — pioneering, healing and advancing the art and science of specialized cardiac medicine.

For a referral to the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, call 713-790-3333.