Healthgrades released its State Hospitals Rankings List May 10, which includes the top hospitals for cardiac surgery.
The list recognizes 431 hospitals in 34 states. To compile the list, Healthgrades evaluated the clinical performance of 4,500 hospitals nationwide across eight specialties: joint replacement, spine surgery, cardiac surgery, coronary interventional procedures, stroke care, critical care, pulmonary care and prostate surgery. For a breakdown of Healthgrades' methodology, click here.
For cardiac surgery, Healthgrades recognized 35 hospitals across nine states. They are listed below.
California
1. Stanford Health Care
2. Kaweah Health (Visalia)
3. Mercy General Hospital (Sacramento)
4. John Muir Health, Concord Medical Center
5. PIH Health Whittier Hospital
Florida
1. Memorial Regional Hospital (Hollywood)
2. Sarasota Memorial Hospital (Sarasota)
3. Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point (Hudson)
Illinois
1. Palos Community Hospital (Palos Heights)
2. Amita Health Alexian Brothers Medical Center Elk Grove Village
3. Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Park Ridge)
4. Loyola University Medical Center (Maywood)
5. Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (Winfield)
Massachusetts
1. St. Elizabeth's Medical Center (Brighton)
2. Cape Cod Hospital (Hyannis)
3. UMass Memorial Medical Center (Worcester)
Michigan
1. Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital (Grand Rapids)
2. Ascension Borgess Hospital (Kalamazoo)
3. Ascension Providence Hospital, Southfield Campus
New York
1. NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center (New York)
2. North Shore University Hospital (Manhasset)
3. Saint Peter's Hospital (Albany)
4. Saint Joseph's Hospital Health Center (Syracuse)
5. Maimonides Medical Center (Brooklyn)
Ohio
1. Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland)
2. Christ Hospital (Cincinnati)
3. ProMedica Toledo Hospital
Pennsylvania
1. Lankenau Medical Center (Wynnewood)
2. Lancaster General Hospital
3. Allegheny General Hospital (Pittsburgh)
4. Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital (Greensburg)
5. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
Texas
1. Medical City Children's Hospital (Dallas)
2. The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano (Plano)
3. Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center (Houston)