The Heartbeat of Pennsylvania: Top 9 Hospitals Specializing in Cardiac Surgery
Healthgrades just published its rankings of the finest hospitals in the United States for heart surgery, with nine in Pennsylvania. The rankings honor facilities that provide better patient results in heart bypass and valve surgery.
Read more about the publication’s ranking process here.
The following are the leaders of Pennsylvania hospitals and health systems that were included in the rankings:
1. Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh
- Jim Benedict, president.
- Donald Whiting, MD, Chief Medical Officer
- Brian Devine, the CFO
- Brian Parker, MD, Chief Quality & Learning Officer
- Angela Costa, BSN, RN, Chief Nursing Executive
2. Geisinger Medical Center (Danville)
- Jaewon Ryu, MD, President and CEO.
- J. Edward Hartle, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer.
- Dominic Moffa, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer.
- Kevin Roberts, executive VP and CFO
- Janet Tomcavage, MSN, RN, Executive Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive.
3. Lancaster General Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia)
- Kevin Mahoney, CEO of Penn Medicine
4. Jefferson Einstein Hospital in Philadelphia and Jefferson Einstein Montgomery Hospital in East Norriton
- Joseph Cacchione, MD, CEO of Jefferson
- Baligh Yehia, MD, president of Jefferson Health.
- Kate FitzPatrick, DNP, RN, executive vice president and chief nurse executive officer at Jefferson Health
- Dwight McBee, BSN, RN, executive vice president and chief experience and health equity officer at Jefferson Health.
5. Lankenau Medical Center(Wynnewood)
- Jack Lynch, the president and CEO of Main Line Health
- Katie Galbraith, president of Lankenau Medical Center.
6. Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (Hershey)
- Don McKenna, president.
- Robert Harbaugh, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
- Michelle Szkolnicki, BSN, RN, Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer.
- Maher Hanna, Vice President of Operations.
7. Temple University Hospital (Philadelphia)
- Michael Young is the president and CEO of Temple University Health System.
- Abhinav Rastogi, President and CEO of Temple University Hospital.