Approved as NJ’s Only Lung Transplantation Program
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center was approved
in 2006 by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
for lung transplantation. Designated as the only licensed lung transplant
program in the state, it offers residents increased access to single
and double lung transplantation for the treatment of severe non- malignant
pulmonary disease.
Between the years 2000 and 2004 more than 330
New Jersey residents were newly registered with
the region’s two
organ procurement agencies for lung transplant.
During that same time period, only 121 New Jersey
residents received the life saving surgery —primarily
in Pennsylvania and New York. “A permanently licensed lung transplant
program at NBIMC provides better and more efficient
care for the people in New Jersey,” says Sean Studer, M.D., Director
of Lung Transplant and Director of Pulmonary Hypertension.
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center has built
a comprehensive Lung Transplant Program which
prolongs and improves the quality of life. The
team includes a transplant surgeon, transplant
pulmonologist, and an experienced transplant anesthesiologist,
as well as a lung transplant coordinator and an
array of psychosocial support services. Collaboration
with Newark Beth Israel Medical Center’s
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Pulmonary Hypertension
Program and its Cardiac Transplant program ensures
a broad approach to care.
The community outreach and patient education aspects of the lung
transplant program were developed with the experience
and expertise of the highly successful heart transplant
program at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, as
well as the widely respected combined renal and
pancreas transplant program at Newark Beth Israel
Medical Center and Saint Barnabas Medical Center
that ranks sixth in the nation by volume.
Previously, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center provided lung transplantation
with case-by-case approval by the NJDHSS. Isolated
transplants offered new life for each of those
patients, but Newark Beth Israel is dedicated to
providing the quality and access that only a permanent
lung transplant program can offer.
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