For the best in heart care, you’ve found it here. National rankings put St. Mary’s in the top 10 percent of U.S. hospitals in providing quality care for heart patients. We are the only hospital in central Missouri with the highest-accredited Chest Pain Center. That means the top standards of care are used from the moment a heart-attack patient arrives in the Emergency Room, when those critical early minutes count. It’s what you would expect from the first hospital in Jefferson City to bring open-heart surgery to the community. Two decades later, St. Mary’s is still the area’s preferred provider for cardiovascular care.