Advancing heart health through expertise and innovation
Every year, our quality outcomes shine through in the tens of thousands of hearts like yours that find healing and hope at Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital. From the beginning, we’ve put quality at the core of our approach to care—consistently exceeding goals and earning national recognition for our patient outcomes.
Our network of Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospitals includes teams performing high volumes of complex procedures and providers who are actively involved in leading research, publications and presentations that are guiding the standards for heart and vascular care.
We’re involved in 24 cardiovascular registry modules to share and track outcomes, more than 170 industry trials and perform 35,000+ procedures a year. But these stats are more than just numbers to us—they represent hearts healed and lives saved, creating a new path forward for people across the nation.
Cardiac surgery STS ratings
With a 3-star rating—the highest possible—in all six cardiac surgery categories from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), our Plano heart hospital is among the top 1% nationally in cardiac surgery outcomes. Our heart hospital in Denton has also earned a 3-star rating in two cardiac surgery categories.
Our 3-star ratings include:
Coronary artery bypass surgery (Denton and Plano)
Aortic valve replacement (Plano)
Aortic valve replacement + coronary artery bypass surgery (Plano)
Mitral valve repair/replacement (Plano)
Mitral valve repair/replacement + coronary artery bypass surgery (Plano)
Multi-procedural (Denton and Plano)
Outcomes
Data-driven, evidence-based decisions help us provide exceptional care. Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital tracks outcomes across numerous disciplines, procedures and locations and continuously works to improve the care we provide. Our outcomes data not only guides our team but also provides you with the information you need to make the best choices for your heart and vascular health.
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) Procedure to place stents and open blocked arteries in the heart
>4,600
1% (compared to 1.9% nationally)
PCI with enhanced imaging guidance
Over 60% of cases (compared to 20% nationally)
Chronic total occlusion When one of the arteries in the heart is completely blocked
350+
0.8%
Interventional cardiology
*Data period: April 2024–March 2025
Procedure
Plano and Denton volumes
Plano mortality (lower is better)
Denton mortality (lower is better)
STS overall predicted mortality
Mitral valve repair or replacement and coronary artery bypass surgery (MVRR + CABG) Procedure to fix the mitral valve and bypass blocked arteries in the heart
120
Aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass surgery (AVR + CABG) Procedure to replace the aortic valve and bypass blocked arteries in the heart
248
0%
0%
3.6%
Aortic valve replacement (AVR) Procedure to replace the aortic valve in the heart
347
0%
0%
1.76%
Mitral valve repair or replacement (MVRR) Procedure to fix the mitral valve in the heart
778
0% (repair) 0.0175 (replacement)
0.93% (repair) 4.87% (replacement)
Coronary artery bypass surgery (Isolated CABG) Procedure to bypass blocked arteries in the heart
2,780
0.66%
2.09%
2.05%
Multiprocedural Combined data from multiple surgical procedures