MURRAY & OGDEN, Utah (ABC4 Utah) – Two Intermountain Health hospitals have been named Top 50 heart hospitals in the nation for 2024 by Fortune Magazine.

Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden and Intermountain Medical Center in Murray were named Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals for 2024 by Fortune and Pinc AI, which evaluates the nation’s heart hospitals each year.

The Fortune and Pinc AI rankings including teaching hospitals with and without cardiovascular residency programs, and community hospitals.

The rankings focus on short-term, acute care, nonfederal hospitals that treated a broad spectrum of cardiology patients. Hospitals had to provide all forms of cardiovascular care, including open heart surgery, to be included in the study.

The final ranking, which is on a scale of one to five stars, was based on measures of acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, coronary artery bypass graft and percutaneous coronary intervention. Of 940 hospitals that participated in the study, only 50 were named to the nation’s top 50 list, including Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital and Intermountain Medical Center.

To be considered, hospitals had to provide all forms of cardiovascular care, including open heart surgery.

“This is a terrific honor to have our efforts to provide the highest-quality heart care to our patients be recognized by Fortune Magazine,” said Eric Lindley, MD, cardiologist at Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital.

“We’re thrilled to once again be recognized as one of premier heart hospitals in the nation,” said Stephen McKellar, MD, medical director for the cardiovascular program at Intermountain Medical Center. “Our focus is to provide the very best care and treatment options for our patients.”

This year’s ranking looked at 940 U.S. hospitals and assessed their performance based on metrics including clinical outcomes (inpatient mortality and complications as well as readmission and 30-day mortality rates), operational efficiency (average length and cost of stay), and overall patient experience.

This year’s top-rated hospitals performed better than their peers on all 23 measures. For example, for patients undergoing a coronary artery bypass graft, or a CABG – a procedure in which a blood vessel is attached to the coronary artery to bypass a blockage – at list-making hospitals, inpatient mortality was 50% lower and complications 32% fewer; patients at top hospitals also experienced a shorter stay for a CABG by a margin of a day and had a lower-cost procedure than those at peer institutions.

Visit IntermountainHealth.org for more information about Intermountain Health’s heart health services.

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