Austin's largest medical/surgical acute care center, Seton Medical Center Austin is the only hospital in Central Texas that performs heart transplants. One of four Magnet hospitals in the Seton Family of Hospitals, Seton Medical Center Austin offers comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services for both inpatients and outpatients and regional specialty programs including the Seton Heart Specialty Care and Transplant Center, Shivers Cancer Programs and the Marialice Shivers Regional Neonatal Center. Seton Medical Center Austin was also one of the first two hospitals in Texas to receive certification as a Primary Stroke Center.
Seton Medical Center Austin News and Events
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Seton Adds Air Transport to High-Risk Maternal Program
November 4, 2009The Seton Family of Hospitals has added air transport by helicopter to its High-Risk Maternal program. This service is for high- risk pregnant women who have emergency medical complications and need rapid access to Seton's high risk obstetric and neonatal care.
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Seton Celebrates Central Texas' Only Heart Transplant Programs Accomplishments
September 3, 2009In 1986, the region's only Heart Specialty Care and Transplant Center was established at Seton Medical Center Austin, a member of the Seton Family of Hospitals. Since the founding of the center, 303 heart transplants have been performed, with the latest surgery on Aug. 17.
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Seton Hospitals Receive Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Awards
August 19, 2009Seton Medical Center Austin, Seton Southwest Hospital and Seton Edgar B. Davis Hospital have received the Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Achievement Award from TMF® Health Quality Institute, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Texas.
Seton is proud to have four hospitals – the only hospitals in Central Texas - that have earned the