Patient Satisfaction
This is probably your first heart or lung surgery, but thousands of your friends and neighbors have had heart and lung surgery at Lehigh Valley Hospital. We always ask patients what they think of the experience. Our overall heart patient satisfaction ratings rank in the 90th percentile on our surgery recovery units, compared to all hospitals nationwide. |
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OUR MISSION IS SIMPLE
To treat every patient and family as if they were our own.
Complete Care for Heart and Lung Patients
- The expertise of six board-certified cardiothoracic surgeons
- Multidisciplinary care
- Close contact with family doctors, cardiologists and pulmonologists
- Complete follow-up care so you can make as prompt a recovery as possible
- 24-hour-a-day availability
- Help in transferring hospitalized patients to the heart hospital
- Consultation or second opinions
This team approach makes sure you receive all the care you need, always from experts.
We want you to know we take care of the whole person, not just the heart and lungs.
When you're facing heart or lung
surgery, it's normal to be nervous. We hope this information
will ease your mind and reduce your stress at this important
time.
You’re in the HANDS OF EXPERTS
When you’re facing serious surgery, you want to know that your surgeon has plenty of experience performing your operation. Lehigh Valley Heart and Lung Surgeons all studied at America’s top teaching hospitals. They have years of training in heart and lung surgery.
And they perform over 1,000 heart and lung operations every year.
Our surgeons work as a team with cardiologists and pulmonologists (lung specialists) who are also leaders in their fields. In fact, everyone who takes care of you—in our office or in the hospital—has special education in cardiac care.
We promise your heart and lungs will be in good hands. |
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