Loyola named top cardiovascular hospital
 The renowned William G. & Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine occupies Loyola University Hospital's new patient tower. |
Loyola University Health System has been named a 2008 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hopitals®: Cardiovascular Benchmark Award winner. It is the only Illinois hospital to be named to the list of the nation’s top 30 teaching hospitals with cardiovascular residency programs. Compared with other hospitals, hospitals on the list had higher survival rates for heart failure, angioplasty, and heart bypass and lower rates of surgical complications. On average, top hospitals also cost $1,542 less. This is the fourth year that Loyola has made the list.
U.S. News & World Report® also consistently ranks Loyola’s heart program as one of the best in the country, and Loyola is the only academic medical center in Illinois to win the American Stroke Association’s 2008 Gold Performance Achievement Award.
Last year, Loyola’s renowned Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine expanded into the hospital’s new $120 million patient tower, and Loyola is the first hospital in Illinois to staff a Heart Attack Rapid Response Team (HARRT) at the hospital 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Loyola University Health System board member James Dowdle and his wife, Sally, have pledged $500,000 to help offset the initial costs of opening the program.