DeBakey Heart Institute

There’s no need to drive hours from your home for top-flight heart care – either for life-saving emergencies, or for the life-affirming care that follows. Hays Medical Center’s full-service heart program was developed under the guiding hand of the “father of heart surgery” Dr. Michael DeBakey. The program includes two full-time cardiac catheterization labs, cardiovascular screening and stress testing, nuclear cardiology, and cardiac rehabilitation.