About Penn Cardiac Care
 Most of us don't think about our heart and the
incredible job it does each day. Over an average
lifetime, the heart beats 2.5 billion times -
that's one beat per second of every minute of
every day. Although it's a strong, powerful organ,
the heart is susceptible to disease and trauma.
Some people are born with defects of the heart,
while others develop problems over a lifetime.
With Penn Cardiac Care, you get the most advanced,
comprehensive heart care available in the Philadelphia
region. Penn Cardiac Care's team of heart specialists
are experienced and knowledgeable
about all aspects of your heart's health-from
arrhythmias and cholesterol to transplant and
bypass surgery. In fact the Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania is one of the top five leading
hospitals for heart
transplantation and has performed
more heart transplants in the past three years
than any other center in the Delaware Valley.
Our Penn Cardiac Care specialists utilize the
latest technology available to pinpoint and treat
all types of heart problems from the most common
to the most complex. Our approach encompasses
not only care of our patients, but also research
to discover the treatments of tomorrow.
46-Year-Old Man Receives First Temporary Total Artificial Heart in Northeast U.S. From Penn Cardiac Surgeons |
A 46-year-old
former fitness instructor, suffering from
biventricular end-stage
heart
failure and
in irreversible cardiogenic
shock,
has become the first to receive a new temporary
Total Artificial Heart in the Northeast
U.S. Learn
more about this breakthrough... |
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Penn Presbyterian Named a Solucient Top 100 Cardiovascular Hospital For Fifth Year in a Row |
 Penn
Presbyterian Medical Center
is the only hospital in Philadelphia to
be selected as one of the nation's “100
Top Hospitals” for cardiovascular
care by Solucient, a Thomson healthcare
business. This is the fifth year in a
row that Penn Presbyterian has been recognized
with this honor. Learn more about this
award...
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HUP
and Penn Presbyterian Recognized
as Blue Distinction Centers for Cardiac Care(SM) |
 In
September 2006, Independence
Blue Cross recognized Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian
Medical Center as Blue Distinction Centers
for Cardiac Care (SM).
Blue Distinction is a nationwide program
that creates an unprecedented level of
healthcare transparency for consumers and
providers. Read
the complete news release.
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Penn Cardiac Care physicians are nationally recognized:
In
2007, U.S. News & World Report ranked Penn
Cardiac Care at the Hospital
of the University of Pennsylvania as best
in the Philadelphia region for heart care and
heart surgery.
The Best Doctors in America lists more
cardiologists
and cardiothoracic surgeons from
University of Pennsylvania Health System than
any from any other hospital or health system in
the Delaware Valley.
For cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, Philadelphia
Magazine's 2007 Top
Docs issue cited more
physicians and surgeons from Penn Cardiac
Care than from any other hospital or health
system in the region.
According to the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost
Containment Council (PAHC4) March 2005 report,
the cardiac surgery team at Penn led the Eastern
Pennsylvania region in total
volume for cardiothoracic surgery for the
year 2003.
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