Banner Heart Hospital (Mesa, Ariz.). Located adjacent to Banner Baywood Medical Center, Banner Heart Hospital is a 111-bed specialty hospital with a medical staff of approximately 450, including cardiologists, cardiovascular and vascular surgeons, primary care physicians and other specialists. Since…
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Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center (Milwaukee). The first heart transplant in Wisconsin took place at Aurora St. Luke’s in 1968. Since 1982, more than 800 total transplants have taken place at the hospital. Today, Aurora St. Luke’s is the only…
Arkansas Heart Hospital (Little Rock). Arkansas Heart Hospital includes six catheterization labs, a 24-hour emergency for heart emergencies and three operating rooms designed for cardiac, thoracic and peripheral vascular surgical procedures. The hospital is affiliated with 29 clinics across the…
AnMed Health (Anderson, S.C.). AnMed Health Heart and Vascular is home to a range of cardiac services, from treatments for heart rhythm problems to open heart surgery. Related to the latter, AnMed’s cardiology care teams perform approximately 250 open heart…
UnityPoint Allen Hospital (Waterloo, Iowa). UnityPoint Allen’s experience in open heart surgery dates back to 1982, when the hospital was first in Northwest Iowa authorized to perform that type of procedure. Today, UnityPoint Allen surgeons have performed more than 4,000…
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Advocate Christ Medical Center (Oak Lawn, Ill.). Surgeons and care teams at Advocate Heart Institute at Christ Medical Center perform more than 1,300 open heart surgeries each year — more than any other hospital in Illinois. The hospital is also…
Alexian Brothers Medical Center (Elk Grove Village, Ill.). Alexian Brothers Heart & Vascular Institute offers a range of heart care services, including programs devoted to women’s heart health and heart valves. The heart valve program was first in Chicago’s northwestern…
The average provider network for plans offered on the health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act include 34 percent fewer providers than the average commercial plan offered outside the exchanges, according to a new analysis from healthcare advisory services…
Mercy Health Fairfield (Ohio) Hospital. Fairfield Hospital serves patients in Butler County and is part of Cincinnati-based Mercy Health. The 192-bed hospital was named one of the 100 Top Hospitals and one of the 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals in 2014 by Truven…
People who come to the emergency department for chest pain but who have normal cardiac blood tests, vital signs and electrocardiograms are at low short-term risk for life-threatening cardiac events and may not need to be admitted to the hospital,…