Loyola Listed Among Top 30 of its Kind in Heart Care

Loyola University Medical Center is the only Illinois hospital to be named to a list of the nation's top 30 teaching hospitals with cardiovascular residency programs. Loyola is among the 2008 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: Cardiovascular Benchmark Award winners for cardiovascular care. This is the fourth year Loyola has made the list.

Compared with other hospitals, the 100 Top Hospitals had higher survival rates for heart failure, angioplasty and heart bypass and lower rates of such surgical complications as infections and severe bleeding. The 100 Top Hospitals, released this week, is based on public data from Medicare and other sources for nearly 1,000 hospitals.

Loyola is a nationally recognized center of excellence for heart and vascular care. U.S. News and World Report® consistently ranks Loyola's heart program as one of the best in the country.

"As a top-rated academic medical center, Loyola offers many benefits to patients," said David Wilber, MD, director of Loyola's Cardiovascular Institute. "Patients are treated by specialists at the top of their fields, and have access to the latest technology. We also do high volumes of procedures, and this deep experience improves outcomes for patients."

Earlier this year, Loyola's renowned Center for Heart and Vascular Medicine expanded into the hospital's new $120 million patient tower. The center includes four new cardiac catheterization laboratories and four new cardiac electrophysiology laboratories. It also features the area's first magnetic-guided navigation system for treatment of conditions such as heart rhythm disorders, heart failure and coronary artery disease.