UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's

St. Luke's cares for heart patients in a dedicated electrophysiology (EP) and cardiac catheterization labs. Just steps away from St. Luke's Emergency Department (ED), the location of our labs is one of the reasons our door-to-balloon times are faster than the national average. This means less time is needed between the patient's arrival in the ED to when they are moved to the cardiac cath lab to receive heart care. In the end, this means less heart muscle will be lost and the patient's outcome will be better.

• The cardiac catheterization lab is equipped with an imaging and hemodynamic monitoring system which monitors and visualizes blood circulation to carefully track and record heart function.
• The EP lab has advanced equipment, such as the Siemens Biplane, which creates improved visualization, because multiple images of the heart can be seen at one time.

For patients who are having procedures that require added patient monitoring and care, we offer a dedicated coronary care unit on the hospital's fourth floor. The unit features calming artwork from the Wrede and Barbara Smith Art and Healing Project and state-of-the-art iBeds that offer extended patient comfort with music, translation and charting capabilities. The unit is staffed with health care professionals trained specifically in coronary care, providing expert, compassionate care for patients in critical recovery after a heart procedure. New monitoring and nurse calling systems, along with a sophisticated nurses' station, donated by Cardiovascular Associates, in memory of Dr. Tjeerdsma, are all amenities that make this unit ideal for patient recovery.

• Consultations
• Angiography: Coronary, Peripheral and Renal
• Angioplasty/Stent Placement
• Drug Eluting Stent Placement
• Nuclear Testing
• Permanent Pacemaker Implantation: permanent, bi-ventricular, ICD
• AV Nodal Ablation
• SVT Ablation VT Ablation
• Atrial Fibrillation
• Atrial Fibrillation Ablation
• Comprehensive EP Procedures
• Holter Monitoring
• Event Monitoring
• EKG Network
• Peripheral Vascular Testing
• CHF Management
• Transesophageal Echocardiogram
• Loop Recorder Implantation
• Non-Surgical ASD/PFO Closure
• Minimally Invasive AAA Repair

When you choose to have your surgery at St. Luke's Hospital, you will experience: 

• Easy check-in at the main lobby
• Comfortable patient waiting area
• Private family/provider consultation rooms
• Private pre-operation and post-operation patient rooms
• Close patient monitoring in recovery rooms

Following surgery, patients in need of an overnight stay experience the same compassion and efficiency throughout their inpatient recovery.

UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Inpatient Acute Rehab Center cares for adult and pediatric patients who have suffered a disabling injury or illness such as stroke, neurological decline or had a recent surgery. Under the medical direction of Dr. Chad Stadsvold, St. Luke's Inpatient Acute Rehab Center is dedicated to helping patients reach their long-term goals, whether it's a return to home or other setting.

Services are performed in both the patient's room and in the rehabilitation gym, located on the hospital's third floor, offering a variety of rehab activities to assist with a patient's recovery. Our interdisciplinary approach means patients have access to a team including physical, speech and occupational therapists, rehabilitation nurses and social workers.

Making a Difference With Patient-Centered Focus

The hospital's acute rehab unit was designed with patient comfort in mind:

• 10 individual rooms: each with its own large, private bathroom.
• A living skills suite to help patients get reacquainted with daily living skills necessary to return home.
• A group dining room that gives patients an opportunity to socialize with visiting loved ones and other acute rehab patients.
• Our team of specially trained nurses including several rehabilitation-certified nurses and doctors, as well as occupational, speech and physical therapists assists patients in regaining a higher level of independence.
• Upon discharge, patients receive follow-up care at UnityPoint Clinic Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Upon discharge, patients receive follow up care at UnityPoint Clinic Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Please call 712-279-7008 or 712-279-7003 with any questions, or fax referrals to 712-279-7005.

A diagnosis of cancer can be difficult, so at St. Luke's we make it our priority to provide quality care in a comfortable atmosphere. We're here for you from the moment you are diagnosed and throughout your treatment stages.

• Starting with diagnosis, St. Luke's pathologists and radiologists are here to detect signs of cancer, even at its earliest stages.
• For patients needing outpatient services, you may be referred on to June E. Nylen Cancer Center, in Sioux City, Iowa, for off-site radiation as well as advanced diagnostic and treatment technology.
• St. Luke's Ambulatory Service Infusion Center also provides treatment to hundreds of cancer patients annually, assisting with chemotherapy, blood transfusions, IV antibiotic therapy and other IV treatments.
• Rehabilitation Services provided by St. Luke's on either an inpatient or outpatient basis help patients manage lymphedema, a condition that can occur in breast cancer survivors. Physical therapists help patients manage this condition with massages, compression bandages and special exercises.

The Levitt Guest Center, located at St. Luke's just down the hall from the Bomgaars Center for Cancer Care, was created through a generous gift by Nancy Levitt Rosenthal of Sioux City in memory of her first husband, David Levitt, who died of pancreatic cancer.

This guest center offers family members quiet suites with private baths where they can rest and renew their spirits. Up to seven families can stay in the guest center at one time.

Because of Mrs. Rosenthal's significant gift, there is no charge to stay at the Levitt Center. Gifts of $20 or more per night are welcome and are used to help maintain the facility so others may enjoy its proximity and comfort for years to come.