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

Learn more about:

Information and Forms for Referring Physicians to the Cardiac Care Centre