title: Lehigh Valley Hospital makes open heart surgery an ideal patient experience.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D016507:Cardiology Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010414:Pennsylvania; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*