Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center Opens at
NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia

Ushering in a new era in comprehensive cardiac care, the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center celebrated its opening on January 20, 2010 at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.

The six-story, 142,000-square-foot building will officially open to patients and their families in February. First conceived more than five years ago, the new Heart Center was designed in collaboration with the Hospital's clinical team, including cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, nurses and other specialists.

"The Heart Center will allow NewYork-Presbyterian to continue on its path of advancing new treatments, a road that saw this Hospital perform the first successful pediatric heart transplant operation, the country's first robotically assisted open-heart procedure to be completed with a totally closed chest, and the country's first robotically assisted, totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass surgery, along with many other breakthroughs in cardiovascular research and patient care," says Dr. Craig R. Smith.

The opening was reported by the news outlets that included the Associated Press, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Crains New York Business and PR Newswire.

Read the NYP press release.