Cardiology

Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston). Massachusetts General Hospital is home to the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, one of the first dedicated cardiac units in the nation. Since opening in 1916, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center physicians pioneered the development of pacemakers and created…

Loyola University Medical Center (Maywood, Ill.). Loyola University’s Center for Heart and Vascular Medicine is equipped with 30 specialists focused on pediatric cardiology, thoracic surgery and vascular surgery. Loyola surgeons completed the first heart transplant at the hospital in 1984…

Longview (Texas) Regional Medical Center. Longview Regional Medical Center staffs a team of 12 cardiac specialists who performed 6,407 heart procedures in 2016. The hospital serves as one of 20 training centers in the U.S. where physicians can learn the most progressive cardiac catheterization techniques for peripheral artery disease. The…

Lehigh Valley Hospital (Allentown, Pa.). Lehigh Valley Health Network’s Chrin Heart and Vascular Center is the fifth largest heart program in Pennsylvania. The center’s cardiothoracic surgeons have more than 90 years of shared experience and perform 1,000 heart surgeries each…

Lankenau Medical Center (Wynnewood, Pa.). Clinicians at the Lankenau Heart Institute have performed 1,300 robotic heart bypass procedures — more than any other hospital in the nation. In 2014, cardiac surgeons performed 794 operations, 52 percent of which involved a…

Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.). Kaiser Permanente’s board-certified specialists and multidisciplinary care teams have reduced serious heart attacks among patients by 62 percent in five years through preventative methods. The healthcare provider is a leader in heart disease, diagnosis and prevention. Through…

The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore). The Johns Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute provides a full range of surgical interventions, including traditional surgeries like valve replacements and more complex procedures like off-pump coronary bypasses. The hospital opened its heart and lung…

Indiana University Health Academic Health Center (Indianapolis). IU Health Cardiovascular, in association with Indiana University School of Medicine, serves as a regional referral institution for complex heart and vascular issues, treating more patients than any other program in the state.…

Houston Methodist Hospital. Opened in 2001, the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center has been on the forefront of heart and vascular care since inception. Physicians and researchers at the center were among the first to embark on stem…

Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (Newport Beach, Calif.). The Jeffrey M. Carlton Heart & Vascular Institute at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian repairs more heart valves than 90 percent of all cardiac programs in the nation. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association recognized…