Why Choose Us?

Since 2001, thousands of people each year have entrusted their heart care to the Heart & Lung Institute at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center. You and your loved ones can count on us, too, with:

A Full Range of Care

• Every level of cardiac and vascular care, so you’d never need to be transferred elsewhere
• An expert team that includes board-certified cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, electrophysiologists, specially trained cardiac nurses, advanced-practice nurses (APNs) and more—all dedicated only to cardiac and vascular patients
• A modern facility with the most state of the art equipment and technologies.

The Region’s Only Cardiac Surgery Services

• Nearly every surgical intervention available for heart disease, including innovative options like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) surgery.
• More than 90 percent of bypass surgery patients at our Heart & Lung Institute undergo endoscopic vein harvesting, a minimally invasive approach allowing the removal of healthy veins from the legs through one-inch incisions to graft in place of damaged or diseased ones.
• To date, we’ve performed more than 2,300 open heart surgeries; nearly 30,000 cardiac catheterizations; and more than 6,200 specialized procedures in our electrophysiology lab for the treatment of abnormal heart rhythms.

Specialized Emergency Services

• We’re the only hospital in southeastern New Jersey to perform emergency catheterization with angioplasty and/or stent placement to stop a heart attack in progress.
• We have a dedicated cardiology team available 24/7.
• We consistently average a door-to-balloon time—the time between entering an emergency department and having a balloon catheter inserted—within the 90 minute range considered optimal by the American Heart Association.

Sophisticated Treatment for Heart Rhythm Disorders

The Heart & Lung Institute of ARMC’s team of highly specialized electrophysiologists perform a range of procedures to help correct arrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation (A-fib). These include:

• Permanent and biventricular pacemaker implantation: Our specialists have implanted thousands of pacemakers with excellent outcomes, and we provide comprehensive pacemaker follow-up services.
• Automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD) implantation: AICDs are extremely sophisticated devices that function as a pacemaker for heart rates that are too slow and deliver life-saving shocks if the heart rhythm becomes dangerously fast.
• Ablation: Our electrophysiologists use this minimally invasive procedure to treat persistent heart rhythm disturbances, such as atrial fibrillation, that don’t respond to traditional medical treatments.