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Atlanta’s Healthscape


What Makes the City’s Best Hospitals Great


By Laura Newsome

Whether you or someone you love has a preexisting medical condition, or should you need medical attention of any kind once you move to the Peach City, you can rest easy knowing that Atlanta is home to some of the country’s best hospitals, each one with dedicated expertise in a wide range of specialties. To help you navigate your moving-related health decisions, KNOWAtlanta has highlighted some of the city’s top hospitals and their renowned areas of expertise. Best of health!

Heart

Saint Joseph’s Hospital http://www.stjosephsatlanta.org

Atlanta’s oldest hospital has the 12th largest cardiac program in the country. For decades, the name St. Joseph’s has been synonymous with exceptional cardiac care. The first hospital in the Southeast to offer open-heart surgery, and the first to offer surgery with the minimally invasive daVinci-S surgical system, St. Joe’s remains one of only two adult heart transplant centers in the state of Georgia. “Our experience with cardiovascular procedures is unsurpassed,” says Lynn Peterson, St. Joseph’s manager of media and government relations. “We perform everything from routine tests to the most complex cardiac procedures, cutting edge research and clinical trials.”


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