Reaching milestones, making memories.

Since 1985, the year physicians at Lutheran Hospital performed northern Indiana's first heart transplant surgery, we've been leading the way in transplantation, performing life-saving procedures that have improved life for our patients and their families. We look forward to a future of providing cutting-edge care for patients who require renal or cardiac replacement.

1985
Physicians at Lutheran Hospital perform northern Indiana's first heart transplant surgery. The region's first heart institute is created at Lutheran.

1987
Physicians at Lutheran Hospital are the first in northern Indiana and the second in the state to implant a Jarvik 7-70 total artificial heart.

1988
Physicians at Lutheran Hospital perform the first artificial heart implant in the region.

1989
Northern Indiana's first heart and lung transplant is performed at Lutheran Hospital.

1990
Physicians at Lutheran Hospital become the first in the WORLD to perform a heart transplant from a donor older than 55, as well as the first in the region to perform a heart transplant in a patient older than 70.

1991
Lutheran Hospital opens northern Indiana's first dedicated outpatient cath lab and heart center.

1992
The first radio-frequency catheter ablation for heart rhythm is performed at Lutheran Hospital.

1997
Physicians at Lutheran Hospital conduct the first PerClose heart cath in the area.

2003
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services notify Lutheran Hospital that it's one of the first 16 sites in the country (and the first hospital in the state of Indiana) approved to use left ventricular assist devices for permanent placement in end-stage heart failure patients.

2004
Lutheran Hospital becomes one of only 30 Heart Hope Centers in the country FDA-approved to implement HeartMate® destination therapy for heart failure patients. Lutheran becomes the region's first accredited Chest Pain Center. The hospital implements its critical care transport flight
program.

2005
Hospital Quality in America Study by HealthGrades™ rates Lutheran Hospital NUMBER ONE in Indiana for overall cardiac services.

2007
Physicians at Lutheran Hospital perform the region's first kidney transplant.

2008
A patient at Lutheran Hospital is the first in the region to receive the new Thoratec HeartMate II Left Ventricular Assist Device.

Lutheran's Kidney Transplant Center celebrates its one-year anniversary, having performed 45 transplants by the end of the year.