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.

EXPERIENCE Makes the Difference

Research tells us that when doctors perform more heart surgeries, patients have better results. Our six surgeons have more than 80 years of education and over 50 years of surgical experience. They’re the most experienced heart and lung surgery team in the Lehigh Valley.

The hospital’s experience in heart surgery matters, too. Lehigh Valley Hospital performs the third highest number of heart operations of any hospital in the state. 2004 and 2005 Pennsylvania reports monitored the quality of heart bypass surgery statewide. Lehigh Valley Hospital is the only hospital in the state with better-than-expected results while patients are in the hospital and for 30 days after they leave the hospital Click here for details or see phc4.com).

NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED Excellence Our surgeons operate at the Regional Heart Centers at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown and Bethlehem. U.S. News & World Report says the hospital is one of America’s best for heart care and heart surgery. In fact, the hospital is ranked highest in the region for heart surgery.

U.S. News & World Report bases its ratings on experience, reputation, outcomes and technology. The magazine also thinks it’s very important if a hospital has met the national standard for nursing excellence, Magnet status. Lehigh Valley Hospital is the only Magnet hospital in the region. In addition, Lehigh Valley Hospital is the only hospital in the region named one of the nation’s 100 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals in 2004 by Solucient, a national information and research firm.