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NJ-NY Hospitals Announce Pediatric Heart Surgery Partnership
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Added: 05/05/2004
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NJ-NY Hospitals Announce Pediatric Heart Surgery Partnership
The venture also has been joined by the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University Medical Center, one of two Ivy League medical schools affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ).
The creation of a pediatric heart surgery program at The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital will be the first such program in Central New Jersey and the third in the state. This is the first joint venture between NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the largest hospital in New York, and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in New Jersey. According to the American Heart Association, about 40,000 children are born with a heart defect each year.
“By joining with a nationally recognized leader in the field, The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital will be able to offer children in our region the most comprehensive cardiac care available,” said Harvey A. Holzberg, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital President and CEO. “This partnership gives families easy access to an established heart surgery program, and expands the first-rate pediatric services of our children’s hospital under the clinical leadership of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.”
“This innovative venture allows our program to expand by assisting in the development of a new program for the convenient care of patients,” said Dr. Herbert Pardes, President and CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. “In a relatively short time, this joint venture will create a top-notch pediatric cardiology program with the most efficient use of knowledge, staff and equipment.”
“Our two hospitals share a common goal to provide the highest quality care for children, and an important part of quality is access to care,” said Cynthia Sparer, Executive Director of the Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian. “This collaboration creates the best possible arrangement for the convenience of children and their families throughout New Jersey and assures that whatever the child requires can be met under a single program.”
The partnership will make it possible for children who have cardiac defects to be treated within the state-of-the-art, family-friendly children’s hospital in New Brunswick. Once fully established, the program will offer pediatric cardiac services ranging from cardiac diagnostic studies to interventional cardiac procedures such as cardiac catheterization and open-heart surgery.
The partnership also continues the steady expansion of pediatric specialty teaching programs offered at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. The agreement will expand the Division of Cardiology within the medical school’s Department of Pediatrics under the leadership of pediatric cardiologist Joseph W. Gaffney, MD, and Department Chairman Daniel A. Notterman, MD, who is also Physician-in-Chief of The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
“We are proud to be part of a collaboration which advances the medical school’s education, research and patient care programs at The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital,” said Harold L. Paz, MD, Dean of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. “The partnership we announce today is another significant milestone in developing the premier pediatric academic health center in New Jersey.”
“We are pleased to partner with an outstanding peer institution like Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in expanding education in the area of pediatric cardiology. We look forward to helping increase the number of superb physicians who can address the urgent needs of children with heart disease,” said Gerald D. Fischbach, MD, Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center.
The Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top four pediatric hospitals in the United States, and is home to one of the nation’s largest and most respected pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery programs. Under the agreement, the hospital’s pediatric cardiac surgeons will perform cardiac surgery at The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
In addition, the full-time pediatric cardiologists on faculty of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School will diagnose and treat children with congenital heart disease, and determine if they are candidates for open-heart surgery. They will also oversee procedures that will be carried out in a new pediatric catheterization lab under construction as part of the expansion of The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
“Surgeons will perform many procedures at The Bristol-Myers Children’s Hospital, such as repairs to obstructed aortic valves, atrial septal defects or other congenital abnormalities of heart valves and chambers. In addition, many procedures will be carried out by interventional cardiologists in the cardiac catheterization lab,” said Dr. Welton M. Gersony, the Director of the Pediatric Cardiovascular Center at the Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian and the Alexander S. Nadas Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center, who will coordinate The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital pediatric cardiovascular program. “For rare and complicated cases, the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian facilities will be available. By aligning a new program with an established program, patients and their families can be assured of the best possible medical care at all times,” he added. |
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