2011 UHC Hospital Quality Rankings Prove Collaboration is the Best Medicine

Our priority at Emory Healthcare is to provide high quality health care that is truly patient-centered. Five years ago, we implemented a five-year strategic goal to hold ourselves accountable to our priorities. That goal was to rank among the top academic medical centers in UHC, an alliance of 114 academic medical centers and 255 hospitals affiliated with those centers. Not only did we achieve our goal, but the 2011 UHC rankings mark the first time in UHC history that two facilities from the same system have placed as highly as Emory Healthcare's facilities did in this year's hospital quality rankings. Learn more and find out what this means for our community.

Celebrating the Gift of Life - Donate Life Month

April is National Donate Life Month, an entire month of activities dedicated to help support and raise awareness around organ donation. In honor of the month, we’d like to celebrate those members of our community who have selflessly given of themselves in an effort to save the lives of others. Check out all of the stories, or choose from the list below:

• Pamela Lesane, Donates Renewed Life to Her Sister
• Jon Pomenville Saves 6 Lives With an Anonymous Donation
• Lester Crowell, Heart Transplant Patient Shares Love
• Kevin Jordan Returns to Practice at WFU
• Allison Batson, Transplant Nurse Donates to Patient

Heart Attack Symptoms in Women vs. Men

Women often experience very different heart attack symptoms than men. Unusual fatigue for months, shortness of breath, nauseau, vomiting, chest pain, and general upper body discomfort are just a few of the symptoms women often experience prior to a heart attack.

Emory Women’s Heart Program cardiologist, Dr. Susmita Parashar outlines these and some of the additional differences in heart attack symptoms in women versus men in this video interview with the team at CNN.

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