Cardiac Services
The Department of Cardiology Services at Monmouth Medical Center comprises the Cardiac Laboratory, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Program. The Department provides a full range of services from the minute patients walk through Monmouth's doors through to their recovery and rehabilitation. Additionally, Monmouth Medical Center was the first hospital in Monmouth County to earn designation as a chest pain center by The Society of Chest Pain Centers, which established a rigorous accreditation process designed to improve performance in heart attack care.
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The Cardiac Laboratory
Monitoring The Health of Your Heart
732-923-5000, ext. 31297
Your heart is an organ that beats more than 100,000 times a day and pumps blood throughout your body. Your blood carries oxygen, which is needed by your heart and other muscles and organs to stay alive. Monmouth Medical Center's Cardiac Laboratory offers state-of-the-art diagnostic services to monitor the health of this muscular pump and provide your doctor with the information needed to determine if a heart problem exists.
The Cardiac Diagnostic Laboratory offers a full range of noninvasive cardiac testing, including echocardiography, both transthoracic and transesophageal, tilt table testing, and stress testing. Both exercise and pharmacological stress testing is offered, with options for nuclear or stress echocardiography imaging. Twenty-four hour holter monitors, ambulatory blood pressure monitors, event monitors, and signal-averaged electrocardiograms are also available for the diagnosis of cardiac problems.
The Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Offering the Most Advanced Technology to Diagnose Heart Disorders
732-923-5000, ext. 31297
Monmouth Medical Center's Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory provides invasive cardiac services, offering the most advanced technology for the diagnosis of a wide range of cardiac disorders. We also offer full service diagnostic cardiac catheterization, emergent angioplasty for acute ST elevation myocardial infarction, and elective angioplasty through the Atlantic C-Port program.
The Lab, led by a fellowship-trained cardiologist and staffed by highly qualified nurses, technicians and other medical professionals with years of experience in cardiac care, takes a team approach to treatment that allows your care to remain in the hands of both your primary care physician and your heart specialist.
Joel Opatut Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Program
Improving Heart Health Through Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
732-923-7454
The Joel Opatut Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Program at Monmouth Medical Center offers individualized exercise and educational programs for participants with cardiac or pulmonary conditions. Workouts are conducted under the supervision of registered nurses and respiratory care practitioners. The newly designed facility features state-of-the-art fitness equipment and is fully accredited by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
Through education, exercise and counseling, participants learn ways to prevent or decrease risk factors for developing heart disease - steps to a healthier heart and healthier life.
To support the Joel Opatut Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Program at Monmouth, learn more about our Building the Road to a Healthy Heart giving program.
Chest Pain Center and Elective/Emergent PCI(Percutaneous Coronary Intervention)
732-923-5000, ext. 31297
As part of a national effort to reduce the number of heart-related deaths, Monmouth Medical Center recently joined a distinguished group of acute care hospitals across the United States to attain national accreditation as a Chest Pain Center. Monmouth was the first facility in Monmouth County to receive this esteemed designation. Through its Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Monmouth offers full service diagnostic cardiac catheterizations; life-saving emergent angioplasty for acute ST elevation myocardial infarction, and elective angioplasty through the Atlantic C-Port program.
Important Components of a Chest Pain Center
This important accreditation is designed to improve performance in caring for patients with acute coronary syndromes. Monmouth earned the highly regarded designation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers after successfully completing a rigorous accreditation process. Chest pain centers provide a comprehensive management strategy for the evaluation, triage and appropriate treatment of chest pain patients by providing a facility where patients come in at the earliest symptom(s), are evaluated in a calm environment and receive prompt, appropriate treatment in accordance with national guidelines.
The Chest Pain Center designation is the latest in the continual evolution of our cardiac services to provide the most-complete roster of services for our cardiac patients. We have been successfully performing emergency angioplasties for over two years, and we are proud to be one of a select group of New Jersey hospitals without a cardiac surgery program to offer this lifesaving treatment. Since June of this year we have been successfully performing elective angioplasties on patients enrolled in the nationwide C Port program. We are one of only 9 hospitals in New Jersey without a cardiac surgery program, to be granted permission by the state to participate in this program.
Important Points about Emergency and Elective Angioplasty
Patients no longer have to be transferred to another facility to receive this advanced care — it’s available right here. Emergent angioplasty allows for the timely delivery of state-of-the-art cardiovascular care to our large patient population. It also ensures continuity of care and maximizes patient and family comfort.
Most recently, Monmouth was approved to offer non-emergency angioplasty through the Atlantic C-Port Registry. Hospitals accepted into the study are permitted to perform interventional cardiac procedures such as coronary angioplasty and stenting on a select patient population without having on-site cardiac surgical services.
For more information about the Chest Pain Center, emergency or elective angioplasty, or any other cardiology service at Monmouth Medical Center, call 732-923-5000 extension 31297.
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