University of Kansas Hospital (Kansas City). Three heart surgeons founded the University of Kansas Health System's Center for Advanced Heart Care in 2001 after leaving their private practices to join University of Kansas Hospital. One of the surgeons, William Reed, MD, performed the first open heart surgery in Kansas City. He, along with Lynn H. Kindred, MD, provided the health system with monetary donations to create the Dr. William A. & Mary J. Reed Cardiovascular Surgery Center and Lynn H. Kindred, MD, Catheterization Labs. In 2016, the health system earned the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Heart Failure Gold Plus and Target Heart Failure Honor Roll Achievement Awards, and U.S. News & World Report ranked University of Kansas Hospital among the top 50 hospitals in the nation for cardiology and heart surgery in 2017-18.
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