HCor - Hospital do Coracao

HCor is currently ranked as one of the main reference centers in Latin America. Located in the city of Sao Paulo, the hospital was established in 1985 in order to treat children who are suffering from cardiac illnesses. Over the years it diversified its scope of services and currently ir offers treatment in 37 medical specialties, including: orthopedics, neurology, traumatology, urology, oncology, gastroenterology, image diagnostics, sports medicine, general surgery, and nutriology. In order to accomplish its social mission as philanthropic hospital, HCor offers the most advanced technology in cardiologic procedures to needy children. Thus, all the resources of the institution are redirected to research, acquisition of last generation equipment, and especially to tend little needy cardiopathy patients, many times newborns, who arrive from different parts of the country.

Directed by Prof. Dr. Adib Jatene, the Hospital do Coração has more than 700 highly trained physicians who are specialized in their respective areas of performance. Together with the technical quality of its professionals, the HCor has the most advanced technology within the health care area in Latin America, with a highlight for the Diagnosis Center – which performs more than 1.2 million exams annually.

A pioneer in technology – the HCor was the first in the country to offer the 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance service for clinical use. It was also the first in Latin America and the fourth worldwide to perform Angiotomography of coronary arteries. It recently announced the acquisition of a 64-incision tomograph, which enables the assessment of the central nervous system, small bodily structures and organs such as the heart, liver, pancreas, kidneys, and the urinary tract. The real-time, three-dimensional Echocardiogram, which allows a precise vision of the heart, is another device that places the HCor within the select group of hospitals that service the most demanding international standards for excellence.

Regarding treatment and procedures, the HCor also reaches first world levels. It was the pioneer in the performance of cardiac transplants, and the first to perform a cardiopulmonary transplant in Brazil in 1985. The performance of more than 40 thousand cardiac surgeries can be accounted for in its medical records, including the philanthropic service it offers since the 80’s to needy children who suffer from cardiopathy therein. In 2006 alone, there were 1,200 itinerant consultations and 300 highly complex surgeries performed in children.

Today, the Hospital do Coração has 216 patient beds, 10 surgery rooms for highly complex procedures, interconnected emergency center with a heliport, surgical center, coronary unit, laboratory, and hemodynamics centers, among others.