August 20, 2008 UMass medical center ranks among best for cardiac care Play video

(Katie Daly, NECN: Worcester, MA) - When it comes to cardiac care, Worcester's UMass Medical Center is the picture of health. The hospital's heart surgery center has made an impressive comeback, now ranked as one of the best in the nation.

Patients at UMass memorial medical center aren't the only ones improving. I think we've been concentrating ....on all areas....we are tanked in top for cardio surgery, vascular surgery.

Now UMass Memorial Medical Center ranks among the nation's top 9 hospitals when to comes to heart attack survival rates. A study conducted from June 2006 to June 2007 shows that mortality rate which estimates a patients risk of dying after a heart attack while at a hospital or after being discharged is 16.1 percent nationally. At UMass Memorial Medical Center its significantly lower at 12 percent.