St. Mary’s General Hospital is home to the Regional Cardiac Care Centre (RCCC) for Waterloo-Wellington. In addition, the centre accepts referrals from Perth County, Grey-Bruce, Huron, Brant, and Oxford Counties, as well as Haldimand-Norfolk.

The RCCC includes two state-of-the-art cardiac catheterization suites, two cardiovascular operating rooms, an eight bed cardiovascular intensive care unit and 45 inpatient beds. Emergency cardiac catheterization services and emergency cardiac surgery are available on a 24/7 basis.

Our expert, interdisciplinary health care team provides a full range of cardiac services including:

• Non-invasive diagnostic testing (trans-esophogeal echocardiography , echocardiogram, EKG, holter monitoring , nuclear cardiology testing, stress testing)
• Cardiac catheterization (special ‘x-ray’ study of the heart)
• Angioplasty (a procedure to open blocked coronary arteries)
• Heart Rhythm Program
• Cardiac Clinics
• Structural Heart Program
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) Program
  • Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) Program
• Cardiac Rehabilitation
• Inpatient Cardiology
• Cardiac Surgery and Cardiovascular Intensive Care
• PREVENT Clinic, powered by Manulife, is a multidisciplinary, risk-factor reduction program for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Focusing on prevention, not events, it operates as part of St. Mary's Regional Cardiac Care Centre. 

Referrals for Cardiac Care at St. Mary's

Information and Forms for Referring Physicians to the Cardiac Care Centre