General Info

About Baptist Health Heart Failure and Transplant Institute The Baptist Health Heart Failure and Transplant Institute offers a seamless care path for advanced heart failure patients who eventually require advanced heart failure therapies - from management to ventricular assist device to transplantation. No other hospital in the state can offer this level of care. The Institute is one of the most comprehensive heart transplant centers in the country. The first heart transplant was completed at Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock in November 1989, and since that time, more than 289 heart transplants have been performed.