Cardiac Special Care Program

Saint Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center Launches Cardiac Special Care Program

The Saint Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center has developed an innovative cardiac program for people with advanced cardiac disease. The Cardiac Special Care Program has been designed to meet the special needs of advanced-stage cardiac patients and their families by helping them to maintain both function and quality of life. The goals of the Cardiac Special Care Program are to provide excellence in care to the patient, increase family/caregiver confidence and coping, as well as help the patient accomplish important personal goals.

The Cardiac Special Care Program is available in the patients place of residence either home, assisted living or nursing home, as well as at SBHPCC’s inpatient units at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Monmouth Medical Center and Community Medical Center. The specially-trained staff of Saint Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center works in collaboration with the patient’s primary care physician and with SBHPCC’s medical directors.

Many patients with end-stage chronic illnesses do not have access to community resources because of the uncertainty of their illness. Adequate physical and psychosocial support is very important for anyone coping with the social isolation and burden of a chronic progressive illness like advanced cardiac disease. We at The Saint Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center, have incorporated that important approach into the model of The Cardiac Special Care Program.

For more information on the Cardiac Special Care Program, please call Maria Roesler, RN, Director of Program Development or to admit a patient to the program, please call the Intake Department at
(973) 322-4800.

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