Ground broken at Vivian and Seymour Milstein Heart Center.New York-Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia announced the ground-breaking for its new, state-of-the-art Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center in Washington Heights in a ceremony attended by former President Bill Clinton. The Heart Center will occupy a 142,000 s/f freestanding free·stand·ing adj. Standing or operating independently of anything else: a freestanding bell tower; a freestanding maternity clinic. building designed by award-winning architects, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. The new six-level facility, made possible by a $50 million gift from the Vivian and Seymour Milstein family foundations, represents the largest single gift in the hospital's history. The facility's comprehensive heart care services, coupled with New York-Presbyterian/Columbia's world-renowned physicians, will make it one of the world's top heart care centers. Patients will have access to the most advanced diagnostic technology and treatments that are frequently less invasive, more accurate, and require less healing time. New York-Presbyterian Hospital is the largest health care facility in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and the second oldest in the country. Dr. Herbert Pardes, president and chief executive officer of New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Healthcare System, said, "Our new Heart Center will help to forge a new era in medicine, offering patients access to care with expanded ambulatory Movable; revocable; subject to change; capable of alteration. An ambulatory court was the former name of the Court of King's Bench in England. It would convene wherever the king who presided over it could be found, moving its location as the king moved. , cardiology cardiology Medical specialty dealing with heart diseases and disorders. It began with the 1749 publication by Jean Baptiste de Sénac of contemporary knowledge of the heart. Diagnostic methods improved in the 19th century, and in 1905 the electrocardiograph was invented. and diagnostic services diagnostic services, n.pl the imaging and laboratory capabilities available for determining the cause of an illness. . By moving diagnosis and treatment under one roof, we will increase efficiency and convenience for all of our patients from New York and around the world. The new Center also allows us to increase our capacity for superb outpatient care, which is a growing trend as we strengthen minimally invasive approaches to heart care." Vivian Leiner Milstein, on behalf of herself, her daughter, Connie, and son, Philip, said, "We are enormously pleased and proud to continue the association that my late husband, Seymour, and I have enjoyed with this great hospital for more than half a century. "We are thrilled to be able to realize the vision of creating the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center, which will serve as a wonderful home for the entire team of world class cardiologists and cardiothoracic cardiothoracic /car·dio·tho·rac·ic/ (-thah-ras´ik) pertaining to the heart and the thorax. car·di·o·tho·rac·ic n. Of or relating to the heart and the chest. surgeons that make New York-Presbyterian/Columbia a preeminent pre·em·i·nent or pre-em·i·nent adj. Superior to or notable above all others; outstanding. See Synonyms at dominant, noted. [Middle English, from Latin prae hospital for cardiac care." |
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