Renown has introduced many vital firsts to our community, making us the region's pioneer in heart care.

These heart care innovations and milestones include:

• First physician-guided da Vinci robotic heart procedure
• First open-heart surgery
• First cardiac angioplasty
• First coronary stent placement
• First coronary atherectomy
• First valve replacement surgery
• First heart catheterization
• First telemetry unit
• First intravascular brachytherapy
• First Women's Heart Program
• First hospital-based vascular health screening
• First thoracic stent graph
• First laser artherectomy of peripheral vessels