Home > Community > Patient News Feed > Joy Hall

Joy's Guestbook

Diagnosis: Mitral Regurgitation, Tricuspid Regurgitation

Member Since: August 24, 2017

Send Joy a Guestbook Below

My Guestbook

Write a Note for Joy

Joy Hall got a guestbook from Steve Farthing

8 years ago (August 27, 2017)

Joy - Actually Morton Plant is High Performing for heart surgery and aortic valve replacement by USNEWS. Tricuspid and mitral procedures are never ranked so aortic is the closest category. They also do a very high volume of procedures and are ranked excellent by inpatients surveys.

Joy Hall

Thank you so much for confirming the reputation I've always heard of them. I was wrestling with someone's earlier post about a less favorable write-up on MP. My surgeon and cardiologist always come up top-notch grades/ratings and I am confident I am in good hands. Thank you for pointing out... Read more.

Steve Farthing

You're welcome. The USNEWS ratings have a somewhat confusing layout and you have to drill down to get the heart surgery ratings. So a hospital may have low ratings in some non-cardiac categories but still be high performing for cardiac procedures.