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Best Heart Attack Care in U.S. at LVH

According to the latest data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH) had the lowest death rate for heart attack care in the nation in 2007. The information appears on the government Web site hospitalcompare.hhs.gov and was featured in USA Today on Aug. 20.

The USA Today story spot-lighted the case of Richard Silverman, South Whitehall Township, who suffered a heart attack in October 2007 while at work. Through quick action by Cetronia Ambulance and LVH’s emergency department and cardiac cath lab teams, Silverman, 63, survived a life-threatening completely blocked coronary artery.

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