Recognition Received
Lahey Clinic was named among the top cardiovascular teaching hospitals in the country by Solucient, a leading source of health care business research. Lahey also received the Premier Award for Quality for excellent care in the area of heart failure. In July 2006, U.S. News & World Report named Lahey Clinic in its "America's Best Hospitals" issue for the ninth year in a row. Lahey was listed among the best in the country for excellence in urologic diseases.
Lahey received the American Stroke Association's Get with the Guidelines-Stroke Initial Performance Achievement Award. Lahey is one of 68 centers classified as Primary Stroke Services by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Lahey Clinic has accreditation from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) to perform live-donor liver transplants. Lahey's liver tranplant team has performed more than 128 live-donor liver transplant surgeries since the program's inception.
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