Cancer surgery center earns top ranking

Shipley Cardiothoracic Center only facility in Florida and one of six in the U.S. to earn 3-star rating.

By Business Observer Staff
| 6:11 a.m. September 19, 2018
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FORT MYERS — Lee Health’s Shipley Cardiothoracic Center has been awarded a 3-star rating, the highest possible, by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons for lobectomy, a lung cancer procedure that removes a portion of the lung.

The center is the only 3-star publicly reporting facility in Florida, and one of only six registry participants in the nation to be designated a 3-star program, according to a statement