Hello my name is Tony and I am one of the nurses in the Cardio Thoracic Intensive Care Unit at Rochester General Hospital. I was asked to make some comments on our unit. We are a twelve bed unit consisting of many nurses, nurse manager; midlevels consisting of nurse practitioners and physician assistants; patient care technicians; respiratory therapists; house keeping; secretaries and our cardio thoracic surgeons. The staff consists of experienced nurses and many have been at our unit for twenty and thirty years. This year again we were listed on the Thomson Reuters list as one of the top 100 heart programs in the country. It has been the eighth time that we have been nominated for this honor. Our hospital has been nominated again this year as a Magnet Designated Hospital. We are one of approximately 120 hospitals or 2% of the hospitals nation wide to demonstrate this excellent level of nursing care. At the moment we are lucky enough to have a new unit being build that will be opening late 2009 early 2010. We are affiliated with the Cleveland Heart Clinic which is one of the top, if not the top heart clinic in the country. After surgery, Cheryl will be coming from the operating room directly to our unit. We are all excited and ready to give the best cardiac care possible.