Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center (Milwaukee). The first heart transplant in Wisconsin took place at Aurora St. Luke's in 1968. Since 1982, more than 800 total transplants have taken place at the hospital. Today, Aurora St. Luke's is the only hospital in the state with a heart care team that is on-site 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The hospital's transplant program boasts a one-month survival rate of 100 percent as well as one of the largest transcatheter aortic valve replacement programs in the state. U.S. News & World Report ranked Aurora St. Luke's as one of the top 50 hospitals in the country for cardiology and heart surgery for 2015-16.
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