Lehigh Valley Hospital makes open heart surgery an ideal patient experience.
[No authors listed]Open-heart surgery is normally associated with large academic medical centers, not smaller community hospitals. So when the Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network wanted to extend its open-heart surgery program from its flagship teaching hospital to a 112-bed facility, administrators knew they had to get it right.
PMID: 13677872 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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