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To our Colleagues and Patients,

We are proud to share the Clinical Activities and Outcomes Report from Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute. This report highlights many aspects of our performance for 2008 and we hope that it will serve as a valuable resource for you.

At the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, we evaluate our clinical outcomes so that we can fully understand how our treatments and procedures benefit our patients. We offer the latest advances in cardiovascular care including innovative treatment, promising research and multidisciplinary support. We regularly review and evaluate our clinical outcomes and, based on the results, developmethods to monitor and improve the healthcare we offer to our heart and vascular patients.

Our clinical excellence, comprehensive programs and superior clinical outcomes have again been recognized at the national level. U. S. News & World Report ranks our Heart and Heart Surgery program among the nation’s best and as the highest-rated program in Illinois.

Throughout this report, we share stories from many of the patients who have been referred to us for specialized care and treatment. Close cooperation with referring physicians is a critical component of the high quality care we provide and we strive to constantly ensure that patients, especially those at high risk, can benefit from a highly coordinated approach.

We are committed to open communication with referring physicians and progressive clinical care that strives to investigate new technologies, medications, techniques and devices while offering our patients the most advanced treatment available in a healing environment that is designed to respond to the patient’s needs.

Our hope is that physicians and patients alike will find this report educational, informative and useful when planning cardiovascular care. Please know that when you need advanced treatment, the nationally recognized experts at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute are available to evaluate and respond to your medical needs.

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Sincerely,

Patrick M. McCarthy, MD
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Heller-Sacks Professor of Surgery, Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine

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For more information regarding the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, please call 1-866-662-8467 or request a first time appointment online.