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Doctor Filiberto Rodriguez-Salinas completed his cardiac surgery training at the Cleveland Clinic followed by an additional fellowship in congenital and advanced adult cardiac surgery at the Mayo Clinic. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. Ever since performing the first-ever heart operation in McAllen in 1983 he has performed over 10,000 cardiac operations, and his results have been consistently ranked in the top tier for cardiac surgery by independent reporting agencies. In 1994, his program in Rio Grande Regional Hospital was recognized by the Consumer's Checkbook magazine Consumers' Guide to Hospitals, as one of the best nation wide and #1 in Texas for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery - with a mortality rate of only 1.6% versus the 5.3% national average mortality rate at that time. More recently, his program now at the McAllen Heart Hospital with a mortality rate of less than 1% received the HealthGrades™ Cardiac Surgery Excellence Award for 2008, which was awarded to only four hospitals in Texas. Hospitals receiving this honor were in the top tier of the HealthGrades™ national cardiac surgery ratings and our program at the McAllen Heart Hospital was ranked #1 in the State of Texas .
Contact Us
McAllen Heart Surgeons
500 E. Ridge Rd. Suite 201 McAllen, Texas 78503
Phone: 956-630-9430
Fax: 956-686-2608
Procedures
- Bypass Surgery
- Valve Surgery
- Atrial Fibrillation Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
- Aortic Surgery
- Carotid Artery Surgery
- Heart Failure Surgery
- Lung Cancer Surgery
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Surgery
- General Heart Surgery Topics
- Heart Surgery Videos
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