The newest in treatments and technology delivering improved outcomes and increased support for South Jersey’s patients . INNOVATIONS E D I T E D B Y M A D E L E I N E M A C C A R in Health Care s the urgency of peak COVID optimistically recedes into the past , the HEART DISEASE TREATMENT region’s hospitals are able to refocus on meeting the everyday , emergency Aand even emotional needs of the regional community . They’ve embraced Cooper University Health Care cutting - edge technology , built state - of - the - art facilities and reached some MITRACLIP MILESTONE incredible , life - saving milestones to ensure that South Jersey remains at the While the MitraClip has been available at Cooper since 2019 , the forefront of a medical field that is constantly innovating for patients ’ benefit . Cardiac Partners Structural Heart team recently celebrated its 100th successful implantation of the lifesaving device for high - risk heart patients with a severe form of the leaky mitral valve disorder mitral re - gurgitation . The team has performed the most Mitral Clip procedures in the region . A medical team including Janah Aji , MD , FACC , Sajjad A . Sabir , MD , both members of Cardiac Partners at Cooper and Inspira , and Georges I . Kaddissi , MD , FACC , member of the medical staffs at both Cooper and Inspira , performed the first commercial - use procedures using the MitraClip — and now the 100th . “ We are very fortunate to be able to offer this treatment to patients , ” said Dr . Aji . “ Following this procedure , patients who have severe heart failure symptoms due to this condition will experience significant im - provement in shortness of breath and fatigue . ” Cooper was instrumental in clinical trials for the MitraClip and was one of 75 leading heart centers in the United States that participated in the COAPT trial that lead to the FDA approval of this device for patients with functional mitral regurgitation . ENHANCEMENTOF OVERALL CARE The MitraClip device is a small clip that is attached to a patient’s mitral valve . It treats mitral regurgitation by allowing the valve to close AtlantiCare more completely , helping to restore normal blood flow through the MEDICAL ARTS PAVILION heart . AtlantiCare opened its new Medical Arts Pavilion in Atlantic City in November . The $ 38.3 million facility is all - new construction TREATMENT FOR LUNG DISEASE the regional health care system specifically developed to enhance access to quality care for the Atlantic City community . Deborah Heart & Lung Center Through the facility , AtlantiCare will continue to address health care disparities , social determinants of health and the THE MONARCH PLATFORM national physician shortage . It will also expand its maternal fetal OnNov . 17 , pulmonologist Zeeshan Khan , DO , performed Deborah’s medicine , family planning and safe beginnings programs aimed first robotic bronchoscopy for lung cancer detection , making him at giving mothers , babies and families healthy starts to life , as among the first in the region to utilize Monarch technology . well as its federally qualified health center ( FQHC ) pediatrics A joint venture between the cardiothoracic and pulmonary and family medicine teaching clinics . Earlier this year , AtlantiCare teams , the Monarch system offers patients the most comprehensive introduced its new safe beginnings vehicle to the community , and thorough diagnostic tool available , able to detect even the which it uses to bring care to mothers and babies in their smallest of lesions in the lungs . It is a key component in Deborah’s homes . growing multidisciplinary oncology clinic practice . The pavilion is also the new home base of AtlantiCare’s “ When we suspect a lesion in the lungs , perhaps because we’ve medical education program . It includes a state - of - the - art seen a small nodule in repeated CT scans , we need to go in and simulation center with four simulation labs and an auditorium take a thorough look . Regular bronchoscopy only goes so far into with 148 seats . AtlantiCare’s FQHC will open a dental clinic in the lungs . This new robotic device can navigate into the smallest the pavilion in 2023 . AtlantiCare’s joint - venture dialysis center spaces in the farthest reaches of the lungs , and with its navigation with Fresenius Kidney Care and its outpatient neurosurgery light , it allows us to directly examine any masses we find , ” says clinic will relocate to the pavilion in 2023 . Joseph Costic , DO , director of thoracic surgery . 34 | SOUTH JERSEY BIZ | VOLUME 12 ISSUE 12 | SouthJerseyBiz.net