Cardiovascular Center Opens on Broadway

St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center (SJRMC) of Paterson has partnered with Heart and Vascular Associates of North Jersey to establish the St. Joseph’s Cardiovascular Center in Fair Lawn.

Located at 22-18 Broadway, it is one of several centers planned for opening in 2011 which will partner with cardiologists to offer cardiovascular patients "high quality and convenient access to medical screening and evaluation, disease management and education, as well as diagnostic services including Nuclear Stress, Echo, EKG, and Vascular studies," according to a press release.

“The opening of the center shows that businesses recognize Fair Lawn as a place where they can come to succeed,” Fair Lawn Mayor Lisa Swain said. “We have been promoting the importance of shopping and dining locally, and it’s nice to be able to add top-quality medical and professional services to the list of what is available locally for consumers in Fair Lawn.”

The centers are being developed as part of St. Joseph’s mission "to improve the health of its community by offering full service community-based outpatient facilities which focus on the management of chronic diseases such as congestive heart failure, hypertension, post-acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, arrythmia’s (heart rhythm irregularities) and peripheral arterial disease (PAD)," the release said.

The St. Joseph’s Cardiovascular Centers will be fully integrated with both St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center and St. Joseph’s Wayne Hospital, a division of SJRMC and affiliated outpatient facilities.

At the Fair Lawn center—which recently held a reception and ribbon cutting for its opening—physicians and patients will have access to hospital-based services such as nutrition counseling and education, with the goal of reducing the number of repeat hospital admissions chronic disease patients typically require and ultimately improve their overall quality of life, according to St. Joseph's.

Editor's Note: The press release above was compiled by the St. Joseph's Healthcare System and supplemented by the Broadway Special Improvement District.