Rush-Riverside Heart Center
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Rush-Riverside Heart Center
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For 2009, Riverside Medical Center has earned the following awards and recognitions:
- Recipient of the HealthGrades Cardiac Care Excellence Award™ - 2 years in a row
- Ranked Among the Top 10% of Nation for Overall Cardiac Services - 2 years in a Row
- Recipient of the HealthGrades Cardiac Surgery Excellence Award™ - 3 years in a row
- Ranked Among the Top 10% in the Nation for Cardiac Surgery - 6 years in a Row
- Ranked #6 in IL for Overall Cardiac Services
- Ranked #5 in IL for Cardiac Surgery
- Five-Star Rated for Cardiac Surgery - 6 years in a row
- Five-Star Rated for Coronary Bypass Surgery - 6 years in a row
- Five-Star Rated for Treatment of Heart Failure - 4 years in a row
- Received the Highest Possible Star Ratings for Treatment of Heart Failure - 2 years in a row
As part of its tenth annual Hospital Quality in America Study, HealthGrades independently analyzed more than 5,000 hospitals in all 50 states and the District of Columbia for its 2008 ratings, objectively assessing their clinical outcomes and quality.
To find out more about these awards, read the full press release. For more information on HealthGrades, review the Rush-Riverside Heart Center FAQs.
Rush-Riverside Heart Center provides comprehensive and advanced treatments for heart and vascular disease. Riverside performed its first open heart surgery on November 8, 1999. As of October 2007, over 1,800 open heart surgery procedures have been done at Riverside and nearly 14,000 cardiac catheterizations.
Services of the Heart Center include:
- Atrial fibrillation management
- Heart valve repair and ventricular remodeling
- Off-pump bypass (performed without stopping the heart)
- Mitral valve surgery
- Electrophysiology diagnostics and management
- Women's heart awareness and education program
- Three advanced cardiac catheterization labs
- Heart Scan, screen to identify the potential for a heart attack
- Fully accredited Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
Lyle, a 79 year-old retired farmer from Dwight, needed quadruple bypass surgery. Hear what he had to say about his experience at Riverside.
Better and faster: Riverside’s Toshiba Aquilion CFX 64 CT produces extremely detailed body images quicker than ever before possible.
Rush-Riverside Heart Center offers comprehensive rehabilitation programs to help heart patients return to an active lifestyle following a heart attack or heart surgery.
Your questions about heart failure, including causes, risk factors, and signs or symptoms are answered here.
Through tiny incisions, the da Vinci surgical system and the skilled surgeons at Riverside Medical Center are making procedures easier and more comfortable for many heart patients.
Take a guided tour of the Riverside Health facilities.
