New state report shows fewer patients died after getting open-heart surgery in New Jersey
THURSDAY JUNE 21, 2012, 11:55 AM
BY BARBARA WILLIAMS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
But complications rise slightly at N.J. hospitals
Fewer patients died after undergoing open-heart surgery in New Jersey in 2009 than in previous years, though slightly more suffered complications, according to the state’s annual report on cardiac bypass surgery.
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry were cited for having no deaths following the operations. Dr. James Klein at Englewood and Dr. Alex Zapolanski at Valley were recognized for performing more than 100 surgeries without losing any patients.
St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, where 205 open-heart surgeries were performed in 2009, had the worst mortality rate in the state with 2.77.
However, the report, Cardiac Surgery in New Jersey, noted that none of the 18 hospitals reviewed had a mortality rate that was statistically significantly different from the rest of the state.
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