Newark Beth Israel Medical Center’s Heart Failure Treatment and Transplant Program is the most experienced and comprehensive center in New Jersey. It has been at the forefront of highly specialized care for more than 20 years and is an active clinical research center. |
Barnabas Health Heart Centers
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The team’s expertise has made it a regional and national training center for physicians, nurses and emergency medical services technicians.
- Ranked among of the nation’s top 50 hospitals for specialty care in Heart and Heart Surgery by U.S. News & World Report America’s Best Hospitals for two consecutive years and top in New Jersey in 2010-11.
- One of only two sites in the nation to achieve better than expected 3-year heart transplant survival rates for 2004 through 2007. The data, released in July is based on the national Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients evaluation of all 106 heart transplant centers in the United States.
- Awarded the Bronze Level by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Donation and Transplant Community of Practice. The award recognizes programs that improve the success of transplantation and increase organ donation.
- Ranked among the nation’s 10 most active programs by volume for five consecutive years and has performed 587 heart transplants since the program began in 1989.
- First center in NJ selected to participate in the destination therapy clinical trial of HeartWare’s HVAD pump, a miniature ventricular assist device (VAD) that takes over the pumping action of a failing heart.
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