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Banner Heart Hospital (Mesa, Ariz.). This specialty heart hospital, located adjacent to Banner Baywood Medical Center, opened in November 2000. Since then, the hospital has nearly doubled in size — from 60 beds to 111 — and earned a reputation…

Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center (Milwaukee). Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center is home to the seventh largest robotic heart center in the world, and its heart transplant program has a one-month survival rate of 100 percent. For 2016-17, U.S. News &…

Aspirus Wausau (Wis.) Hospital. Aspirus Heart & Vascular offers a range of heart care services, including pediatric cardiac care through a partnership with University of Wisconsin’s American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison. In 2016, Truven Health Analytics recognized Aspirus Wausau…

AnMed Health (Anderson, S.C.). AnMed Health has provided care to residents of eight counties in upstate South Carolina and northeast Georgia for more than 100 years. The hospital’s heart and vascular center treats more than 3,000 patients annually, and AnMed’s…

Alexian Brothers Medical Center (Elk Grove Village, Ill.). Alexian Brothers Heart & Vascular Institute offers a range of cardiac care services, including a program devoted to women’s heart health. The hospital’s multidisciplinary team includes clinicians who specialize in cardiology, cardiovascular…

Law enforcement officials in Norwalk, Ohio, have an unusual case on their hands: Two emergency medics found a heart inside a zip-close bag in the grass near a gas station, reports The New York Times.

Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital The cardiac services at Yale-New Haven Hospital include heart failure, aortic aneurysms, cardiac rehabilitation and a womenís heart and vascular program in addition to other services. The hospital has a multidisciplinary team of nurses, physicians and…

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.)Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute became the first heart program in the state to implant the HeartWare ventricular assist system as a bridge to transplantation in 2013, only months after the system earned Food and…

UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (Pittsburgh)The UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute offers 13 different specialty centers for heart care, including the artificial heart program and center for aortic valve disease. U.S. News & World Report ranked UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside as the No.…

University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics (Madison)The heart, vascular and thoracic care at UW Health in Madison has a special emphasis on angioplasty, peripheral vascular blockages and limb salvage, cardiac surgery and heart and lung transplant, in addition to other…