Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston).
U.S. News & World Report ranks the Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital among the five best hospitals for cardiology and heart surgery for 2014-15. In 1923, BWH surgeons performed the world’s first successful valve surgery, and since 1984, the hospital has performed more than 500 heart transplants, making it one of the busiest transplantation and circulatory assist programs in New England. Other notable milestones include being the first hospital in the country to use electric current to restore normal heart rhythm and being one of 10 hospitals nationwide in 1996 to perform a minimally invasive aortic and mitral valve surgery. The Cardiovascular Center includes 16 state-of-the-art operating suites, 40 ICU rooms and 96 inpatient beds.
