The management criteria include severity-adjusted lengths of stay and wage and severity adjusted cost per patient. The award winners are being announced today in the trade publication Modern Healthcare Magazine. Nearly 700 hospitals which provide cardiovascular services nationwide were evaluated for the study. We are certainly honored and pleased to have been selected. Our commitment to provide the very best to our patients and families will always be our mission.
Interventional cardiology includes such procedures as heart catheterization and angioplasty.
Mammary artery grafting to the coronary artery branches has been considered to be the most valuable conduit and the gold standard. This has been used more so than in any other institution in our area and again proves the point that UPMC Shadyside provides high quality surgical care. The cardiac bypass surgery service at UPMC Presbyterian is headed by Bartley P. Griffith, M.D., Henry T. Bahnson Professor and chief, division of cardiothoracic surgery. The division is also nationally renowned for minimally invasive surgical procedures, heart and lung transplantation and artificial organ development. HCIA Inc., collects, manages, and distributes comparative health care information.