CARDIOLOGY SERVICES Providence Heart Institute is the premier cardiac care facility in South Carolina. Equipped with six catheterization labs, four surgical suites and leading-edge electrophysiology labs, the Heart Institute is consistently among the first to introduce new procedures such as MIDCAB (minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass), "off-pump" or "beating heart" surgery and drug-eluting stents. Click on the list of procedures for a short description. More detailed information for many procedures can be found using the Providence Health Encyclopedia.