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…
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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…
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…
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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…
Texas Children’s Hospital (Houston). In 2013, the Healthcare Accreditation Colloquium named Texas Children’s Hospital the first Pediatric Health Failure Institute in Texas, a distinction shared with four other pediatric programs across the country. Physicians and surgeons at the nonprofit hospital treat…
Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital. Tampa General Hospital, a 1,011-bed institution with around 7,300 employees, includes six cardiac catheterization labs, seven interventional radiology suites, eight cardiac operating rooms and a hybrid heart valve operating room. Tampa General Hospital received accreditation in…