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NCH Rooney Heart Institute earns high ratings from Society of Thoracic Surgeons

The Rooney Heart Institute at NCH was recently awarded three-star ratings, the highest classification possible, from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

The Rooney Heart Institute at NCH was recently awarded three-star ratings, the highest classification possible, from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, for various categories.

The divisions include isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), aortic valve replacement, and a new category, multiprocedural composite quality ranking.

NCH was among about a quarter of hospitals nationwide that received this top designation in the new category.

With this year's recognition, the Rooney Heart Institute has received three stars in the isolated CABG category for over a decade.

The Rooney Hearth Insttute has locations in Bonita Sprints and Naples in Southwest Florida.

For more information, visit NCHmd.org.


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Cary Barbor is the local host of All Things Considered and a reporter for WGCU. She was a producer for Martha Stewart Radio on Sirius XM, where she hosted a live interview show with authors of new books called Books and Authors. She was a producer for The Leonard Lopate Show, a live, daily show that covered arts, culture, politics, and food on New York City’s public radio station WNYC. She also worked as a producer on Studio 360, a weekly culture magazine; and The Sunday Long Read, a show that features in-depth conversations with journalists and other writers. She has filed stories for The Pulse and Here & Now. In addition to radio, she has a career writing for magazines, including Salon, Teen Vogue, New York, Health, and More. She has published short stories and personal essays and is always working on a novel. She was a Knight Journalism Fellow, where she studied health reporting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and followed epidemiologists around Kenya and Alaska. She has a B.A. in English from Lafayette College and an M.A. in Literature from the University of Massachusetts.
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