Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Philadelphia). Surgeons and researchers at The Jefferson Heart Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have helped pioneer minimally invasive procedures and develop stents that open arteries as well as drug-eluting stents to prevent re-obstruction. Jefferson's mortality rate for cardiac surgeries is 1.6 percent, lower than the national benchmark of 2.5 percent. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association recognized Thomas Jefferson University Hospital's superior care with the Blue Distinction Center+ for cardiac care, and U.S. News & World Report ranked Thomas Jefferson University Hospital among the top 50 hospitals in the nation for cardiology and heart surgery in 2017-18.
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