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148 CMO / CARE DELIVERY Cleveland Clinic reaches 2,000th heart transplant milestone By Anuja Vaidya C leveland Clinic completed its 2,000th heart transplanta- tion in July, making it the third program in the U.S. to reach this milestone, the organization announced Aug. 26. Cleveland Clinic has one of the largest heart transplant pro- grams in the country. It officially began the program in 1984, and clinicians average 50-60 transplants a year, including around five to eight pediatric transplants. Cleveland Clinic has also performed several dual-organ trans- plants, including heart-liver, heart-lung and heart-kidney trans- plants, on pediatric and adult patients. "There are only a few programs in the world that have contin- ued to have a long-term commitment to doing a large volume of heart transplants. We began our pioneering work on heart transplants in 1968 and we are delighted we now have served 2,000 patients with helping them with heart transplants," said Lars Svensson, MD, PhD, chair of Cleveland Clinic's Heart, Vas- cular and Thoracic Institute. n Dartmouth-Hitchcock performs 1,000th transplant By Mackenzie Bean S urgeons at Lebanon, N.H.-based Dart- mouth-Hitchcock Medical Center performed their 1,000th solid organ transplant June 24. A male patient received a kidney from a living donor. As of July, both patients were doing well after the procedure and "on the road to recovery," Michael Daily, MD, chief of solid organ transplants at Dart- mouth-Hitchcock, said in a video produced by the hospital. Dartmouth-Hitchcock runs the only organ transplant center in New Hampshire, launched in 1992. Since then, the program has achieved numerous milestones. In 2010, Dartmouth-Hitchcock became the first pro- gram to successfully transplant a donor organ from across the country through a "paired donor" pilot pro- gram overseen by the National Kidney Registry. n CRNA salary by state — Wyoming is No. 1 at $243,310 By Kelly Gooch T he average salary for certified regis- tered nurse anesthetists in the U.S. is $181,040, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment Statistics survey May 2019, the most recent data available. CRNAs have the highest annual salary in Wyoming and the lowest in Arizona. e BLS did not provide data for Alaska, Nevada, Rhode Island or Delaware. Here is the average annual salary for CRNAs by state, in descending order. Wyoming: $243,310 Montana: $239,380 Oregon: $234,750 Wisconsin: $233,600 California: $227,290 Iowa: $202,400 Massachusetts: $201,890 New York: $200,350 Illinois: $199,660 Connecticut: $198,750 Hawaii: $198,330 New Hampshire: $196,000 North Dakota: $195,010 Michigan: $194,640 New Jersey: $193,900 Washington: $192,440 Minnesota: $192,290 South Dakota: $190,880 North Carolina: $189,060 Maine: $188,840 West Virginia: $188,580 Maryland: $186,310 Ohio: $184,380 Arkansas: $182,960 Virginia: $180,120 Nebraska: $179,450 Mississippi: $177,820 Colorado: $175,100 Oklahoma: $175,090 Georgia: $174,310 Pennsylvania: $174,240 Kentucky: $167,400 Texas: $167,020 South Carolina: $165,940 Indiana: $165,770 New Mexico: $162,320 Kansas: $162,010 Missouri: $161,420 Florida: $160,030 Louisiana: $158,500 Alabama: $157,430 Tennessee: $157,070 Idaho: $150,670 Utah: $146,470 Arizona: $144,530 n