Quality/Performance Data

• More than 2,300 acute heart attack cases are treated annually through our Emergency Departments.
• Last year, we treated more than 6,200 patients in our state-of-the-art cardiac catheterization labs.
• Our electrophysiology (EP) labs are among the country’s best equipped—and busiest—facilities, performing more than 3,330 diagnostic and therapeutic arrhythmia procedures annually.
• The heart surgery team performed 756 surgeries in 2007, making ours one of the busiest program in the region.

Our doctors have been true innovators and educators in their use of the latest surgical and non-surgical techniques, with the goal of reducing risk and improving outcomes for our patients. 

• More than 90 percent of coronary bypass surgeries performed use the beating heart technique, compared to the national average of 19.6 percent.
• Collaborative treatment (hybrid procedures that combine surgery and stent intervention) for coronary
  artery disease offers patients the least invasive method to treat their disease.
• With the addition of the daVinci® Surgical System, our cardiothoracic surgeons are able to perform
  complex surgical procedures with extremely small incisions, reducing risk and trauma to the patient
  and speeding recovery.
• We are home to one of the nation’s busiest robotic revascularization surgeons—the busiest on the east coast.
• Greater than 90 percent of isolated mitral valve repairs are performed using a minimally invasive technique. Mitral valve repair generally has greater longevity in comparison to valve replacement and eliminates the need for life-long blood thinners. We are a national training center for minimally invasive mitral valve repair using Port Access technology.
• Skilled and experienced electrophysiologists perform EP studies at Lankenau, Bryn Mawr, and Paoli Hospitals. In our state-of-the-art interventional cardiology suites, we maintain six fully staffed EP labs and two dedicated operating suites with advanced technology, offering patients quick, convenient, and individualized treatment. Patients with atrial fibrillation refractory to medical therapy may be candidates for catheter ablation using techniques not available at most centers.
• We offer catheter-based and surgical ablation procedures for the treatment of atrial fibrillation.
• Our Advanced Heart Failure and VAD Program offers additional therapies through research in heart failure and mechanical assist devices.