Loyola's mortality rate from heart-bypass surgery 74% lower than at peer hospitals

Loyola University Hospital's mortality rate from heart-bypass surgery is 74 percent lower than the mortality rate at peer hospitals, according to Thomson Reuters Cardiovascular Benchmarks Report.

Thomson Reuters produces reports to help organizations improve performance and manage costs. It used several data sets from Medicare patients to rate hospitals' cardiovascular programs. Loyola was compared with other teaching hospitals that also have cardiovascular residency programs.

The rate of complications from bypass surgery was 20 percent lower at Loyola than at its peer hospitals. And Loyola's 30-day heart-failure mortality rate was 15 percent lower than its peer hospital rate.

SOURCE Loyola's Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine