History of Accomplishments

UES Inc. has provided support for an impressive lists of medical milestones accomplishments here in Kentucky, including some historic world events:

2007
Exclusive Perfusion contract with Jewish & Staint Mary's Healthcare Hospitals

2004
Region’s first implantation of the Heartmate II ventricular assist device (heart)
Kentucky’s first non-heartbeating donor liver transplant

2003
Region’s first totally implantable Left Ventricular Assist System (the LionHeart®) as a permanent device (heart)
Region’s first implantation of the DeBakey ventricular assist device (heart)

2001
World's first and second AbioCor® Implantable Replacement Heart
Kentucky's first implantation of the Acorn CorCap Cardiac Support device (heart)

 

1998
United States' first two-year Novacor ventricular assist device (VAD) survival patient (heart)

1996
Region's first port-access mitral valve surgery (heart)

1995
Kentucky's first double-lung transplant

1992
Kentucky's first use of Novacor VAD (heart)

1990
Kentucky's first kidney/liver transplant
Kentucky's first adult liver transplant

1988
Kentucky's first heart/lung transplant

1985
World's first successful heart transplant following the use of a Thoratec ventricular assist device

Kentucky's first juvenile VAD implantation (heart)