Baltimore-based HCIA Inc. collects, manages, and distributes comparative health care information. To qualify, hospitals must have consistently good performance across seven measures that indicate high-quality outcomes and efficient management of care. The survey singled out hospitals with lower death rates, fewer complications, and shorter and less costly lengths of stay. Award winners were announced March 15 in Modern Healthcare magazine. James O'Toole, MD, is director of Interventional Cardiology at UPMC Shadyside.
Interventional cardiology includes procedures such as heart catheterization and angioplasty.
V.R. Machiraju, MD, is chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at UPMC Shadyside. UPMC Presbyterian's cardiac bypass surgery service is headed by Bartley Griffith, MD, Henry T. Bahnson Professor and chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, New York, and San Francisco had the highest concentrations of top cardiovascular services.