Cleveland Clinic. Cleveland Clinic's Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute was ranked No. 1 in the country for cardiology and heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report in 2015. In 1956, heart surgeons at Cleveland Clinic performed the world's first successful stopped-heart surgery using a heart-lung machine developed by another Cleveland Clinic surgeon, Willem E. Kolff, MD. The hospital features a dedicated women's cardiovascular center, a sports cardiology center, an aorta center and a cardio-oncology center, among other heart-focused programs. Cleveland Clinic is Magnet-designated by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and is designated as a Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care.
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