Surgeons at Newark
Beth Israel Medical Center successfully perform New Jersey’s
first heart transplant.
Newark Beth Israel
Medical Center chosen as the only New Jersey hospital to
trial the Acorn CorCap cardiac support device.
The Cardiac Transplant
program ranks third in the northeast and in the top 10 in
the USA.
The Heart Failure
Treatment and Transplantation Program is one of only 40 sites
in the United States to participate in a clinical trial of
Medtronic's Chronicle device to telemetrically monitor the
condition of heart failure patients, and the first site on
the East Coast to implant the Micromed DeBakey Left Ventricular
Assist Device.
The CardiacTransplant
Program ranks 7th in the Nation.
A heart transplant
is successfully performed at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
on a 15-year-old boy, the youngest patient transplanted in
the state of New Jersey.
Newark Beth Israel
Medical Center receives approval from the Department of Health
andSenior Services to establish the state’s only lung
transplantation service, expected to begin operation
in 2007.
38 heart transplants
performed with 100 percent surgical success.
Newark Beth Israel
Medical Center performs
its 500th heart transplant.
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