The Mount Sinai Hospital and Jupiter Medical Center, in Jupiter, Florida, recently announced a new partnership that promises to enhance the quality of cardiovascular care in South Florida and throughout the state with the creation of Mount Sinai Heart New York at Jupiter Medical Center. The collaboration encompasses nearly all facets of cardiac care and calls for physicians at both hospitals to share knowledge, experience, best practices, evidence-based medicine, quality protocols, and clinical pathways for improved patient care.
“Medicine should have no boundaries,” says Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System. “We look forward to sharing Mount Sinai’s expertise in cardiovascular services with Jupiter Medical Center and creating a transformative health care partnership.”
John D. Couris, President and Chief Executive Officer of Jupiter Medical Center, says, “This innovative collaboration with Mount Sinai Heart New York is yet another way we’re delivering unparalleled health care in our own backyard.”
The partnership calls for both hospitals to collaborate on interventional cardiology, cardiac rehabilitation, electrophysiology, noninvasive imaging, congestive heart failure, wellness and prevention, research, and education.
Physicians at Jupiter Medical Center will have access to clinical consults for their patients with Mount Sinai Heart New York colleagues and use long-distance telehealth technology for patient assessments in real time. In addition, patients at Jupiter Medical Center will have access to the latest clinical trials and advanced cardiac treatment options provided by Mount Sinai Heart New York. For open-heart surgery or other cardiac procedures not routinely performed at Jupiter Medical Center, patients will have coordinated access to physicians and surgeons at Mount Sinai Heart New York.
“Our new partnership with Jupiter Medical Center represents an integral step in providing access and continuity of care for our patients who share a common link and split their time between New York and South Florida,” says Arthur A. Klein, MD, President of the Mount Sinai Health Network. “We look forward to collaborative academic activities and joint program expansion.”
Prior to the partnership, Jupiter Medical Center performed more than 1,000 cardiac procedures each year, according to Gonzalo Loveday, MD, Medical Director of Mount Sinai Heart New York at Jupiter Medical Center. “What is exciting,” he says, “is the fact that this collaboration will allow us access to higher-quality treatments for our community.” Dr. Loveday and members of the interventional cardiology team have visited Mount Sinai Heart in New York and implemented their protocols for patient care.
Central to the partnership is Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Richard Gorlin, MD, Heart Research Foundation Professor, Director of Mount Sinai Heart, and Physician-in-Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital, who is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences where he serves as Chair of the committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease.
A past president of the American Heart Association and the World Heart Federation, Dr. Fuster says, “Shared knowledge leads to more powerful medicine. This alliance is a big plus for both of our institutions and will increase the quality of cardiac care for our patients, whether they are in New York or Florida.”