Our Organization

The Minneapolis Heart Institute® (MHI) is a specialized, state-of-the-art facility providing high-quality medical care to individuals with heart disease in the United States and abroad. Its programs, a number of which are conducted in conjunction with Abbott Northwestern Hospital (ANW), address the full range of heart health needs: prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. Click here to read more about MHI's history and key milestones.

MHI programs encompass heart disease prevention, a complete range of state-of-the-art diagnostic and interventional technologies and corrective surgical procedures. Technologies include balloon angioplasty, atherectomy (rotational, directional and extraction), angiojet thrombectomy, coronary stents, open-heart surgery, heart and heart-lung transplantation, ventricular assist devices, electrophysiology diagnostic studies, radiofrequency catheter ablation, arrhythmia surgery, pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator implantation, electron beam CT and cardiac MRI. For 2006 procedure statistics, click here.

At the Minneapolis Heart Institute® and Abbott Northwestern Hospital, more than 60 physicians and 650 staff take pride in our tradition of leadership in clinical care, medical and surgical innovation, and clinical research and teaching.