University of California Davis Medical Center (Sacramento). University of California Davis Medical Center cardiologists performed the hospital’s first transcatheter aortic valve replacement in 2012, marking the first time a minimally invasive heart valve replacement was performed in Sacramento. The hospital’s…
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University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham. UAB Hospital houses a 21-bed cardiac care unit specializing in procedures such as heart transplants and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation. The hospital was first in Alabama to develop a comprehensive heart valve program in 2012, and since…
University Hospitals Case Medical Center (Cleveland). UH Case Medical Center is home to the Harrington Heart & Vascular Center. Case’s cardiac intensive care unit has been awarded the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence, and the American Heart Association recognized the…
UMass Memorial Medical Center (Worcester, Mass.). UMass Memorial Health Care’s flagship hospital, UMass Memorial Medical Center, is the only hospital in New England providing custom manufactured fenestrated endovascular grafts for the minimally invasive thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm treatment. The hospital’s division of…
UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco). The 16-bed UCSF Heart & Vascular Center’s Heart Transplant Program began in 1989 and has provided more than 250 heart transplants since then. The center also houses the UCSF Cardiovascular Genetics Program to identify individuals at…
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UCLA Health (Los Angeles). The Heart Transplant Program at UCLA Medical Center launched in 1984 and has grown into one of the largest in the nation, having provided heart transplants to more than 2,000 adults and 300 children over the past…
UC San Diego Health. UC San Diego Health’s Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center opened in 2011 as the first comprehensive heart hospital in San Diego dedicated to specialized cardiac care. The 128,000-square-foot facility includes four stories and 54 patient beds in addition to…
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…
The Christ Hospital Health Network (Cincinnati). The Christ Hospital Health Network’s The Christ Hospital was the first hospital in the Cincinnati region to build a transcatheter aortic valve replacement program in 2011, and in June surgeons performed the 500th heart valve…
Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center (Houston). Founded by Denton A. Cooley, MD, in 1962, the Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing cardiovascular disease. The heart institute was…