Awards were based on Medicare mortality data from 2021 to 2023 for both coronary artery bypass graft surgery and heart valve surgery. Read Healthgrades’ full methodology here.
Healthgrades’ 50 Best Hospitals to receive a Cardiac Surgery Excellence Award are:
- AdventHealth Orlando (Florida)
- Allegheny General Hospital (Pittsburgh)
- Ascension St. Vincent Heart Center (Carmel, Ind.)
- AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center Atlantic City (N.J.) Campus
- Atrium Health Pineville (Charlotte, N.C.)
- Baylor Scott and White The Heart Hospital Plano (Texas)
- Christ Hospital (Cincinnati)
- Cleveland Clinic
- Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Duke University Hospital (Durham, N.C.)
- Elkhart (Ind.) General Hospital
- Geisinger Medical Center (Danville, Pa.)
- Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center
- Hartford (Conn.) Hospital
- Jefferson Einstein Montgomery Hospital (East Norriton, Pa.)
- Jersey Shore University Medical Center (Neptune, N.J.)
- John Muir Medical Center Concord (Calif.)
- Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center
- Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center (Calif.)
- Kootenai Health (Coeur D’Alene, Idaho)
- Lancaster (Pa.) General Hospital
- Lankenau Medical Center (Wynnewood, Pa.)
- Lenox Hill Hospital (New York City)
- Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Mary’s Campus (Rochester, Minn.)
- McLeod Regional Medical Center (Florence, S.C.)
- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (Hershey, Pa.)
- Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center
- Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City)
- NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City)
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital (New York City)
- Newark (N.J.) Beth Israel Medical Center
- North Shore University Hospital (Manhasset, N.Y.)
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
- Piedmont Hospital (Atlanta)
- Portsmouth (N.H.) Regional Hospital
- Rex Hospital (Raleigh, N.C.)
- Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles)
- Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
- Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital
- Silver Cross Hospital (New Lenox, Ill.)
- South Shore University Hospital (Bay Shore, N.Y.)
- St. David’s Medical Center (Austin, Texas)
- St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center (Brighton, Mass.)
- St. Luke’s Hospital (Chesterfield, Mo.)
- Stanford (Calif.) Hospital
- UAB Hospital (Birmingham, Ala.)
- UC San Diego Health Hillcrest Medical Center
- Westchester Medical Center (Valhalla, N.Y.)
- Winchester (Va.) Medical Center
- Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital
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