Heart & Vascular News

Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Jennifer Lawton at Barnes Jewish Hospital is a proponent of the off pump method and says it works for her patients: 'There's a lower blood transfusion rate with off-pump surgery, and the patients are discharged approximately one day sooner."

The cardiology team at Barnes-Jewish Hospital celebrated another recognition, days after U.S. News & World Report ranked “Heart and Heart Services” at Barnes-Jewish #12 nationally and the hospital #9 overall.

More than 350 physicians at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been named to The Best Doctors In America for 2009.

For the 17^th consecutive year, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and its physician partners at Washington University School of Medicine, is the only St. Louis area hospital or medical institution listed among America’s elite medical centers in the U.S.News & World Report “America’s Best Hospitals” issue.