New Jersey-based Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center and New York-based NYU Langone Health, both nationally recognized cardiovascular programs, have announced that they are expanding their partnership to provide patients improved access to adult congenital heart disease services and the specialist directed care. Shown here, Trish O’Keefe, Senior Vice President, and President of Morristown Medical Center. Image courtesy: Atlantic Health
March 13, 2024 — Two nationally recognized cardiovascular programs, New Jersey-based Atlantic Health System’s Morristown Medical Center and New York-based NYU Langone Health, have announced that they are expanding their partnership to provide patients improved access to adult congenital heart disease services and the specialist directed care.
“Our clinical affiliation continues to build and strengthen our cardiovascular relationship with NYU Langone and our nationally ranked cardiology program here at our Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute based at Morristown Medical Center” said Trish O’Keefe, Senior Vice President, and President of Morristown Medical Center. She added, “Patients will now have more convenient access, closer to home for highly specialized cardiovascular care and will benefit from the physician expertise from both organizations.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, congenital heart disease affects nearly 1%, or about 40,000 births per year in the United States, with more than 90% reaching adulthood. There are an estimated 2 million adults living in the United States with congenital heart disease.
“Our partnership with experts at Morristown Medical Center will provide advanced adult congenital heart disease care to patients in New Jersey, allowing them to stay in their local community” said Dan Halpern, MD the Program Director of NYU Langone Heart’s Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) Program. According to the statement on the partnership, NYU Langone’s ACHD Program was the first in the State of New York to be nationally accredited as an Adult Congenital Heart Disease Comprehensive Care Center and the first in the nation to be re-accredited.
“This collaborative approach with our colleagues at NYU Langone will provide congenital heart disease patients the specialized care they require to live better lives,” said Claire Boccia Liang, MD the Medical Director of Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program at Atlantic.
In July 2021, Atlantic Health System and NYU Langone Health announced their partnership on organ transplantation that coordinates transplant care at Morristown Medical Center for heart patients and Overlook Medical Center for liver patients allowing greater access through a high-quality and highly collaborative patient care team.
The written statement detailing the expanded partnership shared details of each organization, a summary of which is provided here.
Atlantic Health System provides health care in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the New York metropolitan area, with a workforce of 20,000 team members and 5,440 affiliated physicians. Atlantic Health System serves more than half of the state of New Jersey including 14 counties and 7.5 million people. The not-for-profit system offers more than 550 sites of care, including seven hospitals and through its partnership with CentraState Healthcare System in Freehold, NJ. The system includes Atlantic Medical Group, part of a physician enterprise that makes up one of the largest multispecialty practices in New Jersey with more than 1,600 physicians and advance practice providers.
In addition, Atlantic Health System has a medical school affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University and is home to the regional campus of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Morristown and Overlook Medical Centers and is the official health care partner of the New York Jets.
NYU Langone Health has long been heralded as a patient-centered, integrated academic medical center, known for its excellence in clinical care, research, and education. Included in its 350+ locations throughout the New York area are six inpatient locations: Tisch Hospital, its flagship acute-care facility; Kimmel Pavilion; NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone; NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, a full-service teaching hospital and level 1 trauma center located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn; and NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, a 591-bed hospital and level 1 trauma center located in Mineola, Long Island.
Also part of NYU Langone Health is the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute–designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, and NYU Grossman School of Medicine; and NYU Long Island School of Medicine, on the campus of NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island.
More information: www.nyu.org, www.atlantichealth.org
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