Cohen Children's Medical Center Receives Excellence in Life Support Award
Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center has been honored with the designation of "Life Support Center of Excellence" for their work in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and has received the Excellence in Life Support award.
/EINPresswire.com/ NEW HYDE PARK, NY - Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York, a division of North Shore-LIJ Health System, which provides a range of services including pediatric cardiac surgery, has received the Excellence in Life Support award from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO). The award is given to medical centers providing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) programs that achieve the highest level of performance, innovation, satisfaction and quality.
ECMO consists of extracorporeal techniques used in intensive care situations where the heart and/or lungs of a patient are so diseased or damaged they can no longer function normally on their own. This temporary bypass system allows staff to treat infants and children with life-threatening respiratory illnesses, cardiac disease and other issues that would require heart-lung bypass during pediatric cardiac surgery.
According to documents provided by the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization, a designated Center of Excellence has demonstrated extraordinary achievement in the following three categories:
1) Excellence in promoting the mission, activities and vision of ELSO
2) Excellence in patient care by using the highest quality measures, processes and structures based upon evidence
3) Excellence in training, education, collaboration and communication that supports ELSO guidelines and contributes to a healing environment.
Peter Silver, MD, the chief of pediatric critical care at Cohen Children's Medical Center stated: "Our designation as an ELSO Center of Excellence is a testament to CCMC's commitment to exceptional patient and critical care, and the hard work of our staff." He continued: "Using specialized equipment, our staff established patient protocols and received advanced training and education in extracorporeal life support. Their expertise distinguishes our team among the local and international healthcare communities, and provides life-saving options to infants struggling to survive."
The ECMO program at Cohen Children's Medical Center is available in the newborn and pediatric intensive care units. Outside of the those units, Cohen Children's Medical Center also provides care and acts as a regional referral center for neonates and pediatric patients suffering critical illness. The ECMO team features a wide range of specialists including pediatric and neonatal intensive care staff, pediatric surgeons, cardiothoracic surgeons and other cardiologists for pediatric heart surgery, specialty RN's, respiratory therapists and perfusionists.
About Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York:
For the fifth consecutive year, US News & World Report has ranked Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York among the nation's best children's hospitals. Cohen Children's Medical Center, under the parent umbrella of North Shore-LIJ Health System, is the pre-eminent children's hospital on Long Island and is the largest provider of pediatric services in the state of New York, including pediatric cardiac surgery.
Established nearly 30 years ago, the pediatric hospital has evolved continually to keep pace with a growing population. The vision of Cohen Children's Medical Center is to become a national leader, recognized for providing outstanding family-centered, quality-focused and academically based care while conducting research committed to finding cures and innovative treatments for childhood diseases.
For more information, visit www.northshorelij.com/ccmcny/home
About the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization:
The Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) is an international consortium of health care professionals and scientists who are dedicated to the development and evaluation of novel therapies for support of failing organ systems. Crucial is the promotion of a broad multidisciplinary collaboration. The primary mission of the organization is to maintain a registry of, or at least the use of, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in active ELSO centers.
For more information, visit http://www.elso.med.umich.edu/
Monica Gonzalez
North Shore-LIJ Health System
516-465-2657
http://www.northshorelij.com/ccmcny/home
PR Courtesy of Online PR Media: http://bit.ly/rx3Hp4
/EINPresswire.com/ NEW HYDE PARK, NY - Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York, a division of North Shore-LIJ Health System, which provides a range of services including pediatric cardiac surgery, has received the Excellence in Life Support award from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO). The award is given to medical centers providing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) programs that achieve the highest level of performance, innovation, satisfaction and quality.
ECMO consists of extracorporeal techniques used in intensive care situations where the heart and/or lungs of a patient are so diseased or damaged they can no longer function normally on their own. This temporary bypass system allows staff to treat infants and children with life-threatening respiratory illnesses, cardiac disease and other issues that would require heart-lung bypass during pediatric cardiac surgery.
According to documents provided by the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization, a designated Center of Excellence has demonstrated extraordinary achievement in the following three categories:
1) Excellence in promoting the mission, activities and vision of ELSO
2) Excellence in patient care by using the highest quality measures, processes and structures based upon evidence
3) Excellence in training, education, collaboration and communication that supports ELSO guidelines and contributes to a healing environment.
Peter Silver, MD, the chief of pediatric critical care at Cohen Children's Medical Center stated: "Our designation as an ELSO Center of Excellence is a testament to CCMC's commitment to exceptional patient and critical care, and the hard work of our staff." He continued: "Using specialized equipment, our staff established patient protocols and received advanced training and education in extracorporeal life support. Their expertise distinguishes our team among the local and international healthcare communities, and provides life-saving options to infants struggling to survive."
The ECMO program at Cohen Children's Medical Center is available in the newborn and pediatric intensive care units. Outside of the those units, Cohen Children's Medical Center also provides care and acts as a regional referral center for neonates and pediatric patients suffering critical illness. The ECMO team features a wide range of specialists including pediatric and neonatal intensive care staff, pediatric surgeons, cardiothoracic surgeons and other cardiologists for pediatric heart surgery, specialty RN's, respiratory therapists and perfusionists.
About Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York:
For the fifth consecutive year, US News & World Report has ranked Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York among the nation's best children's hospitals. Cohen Children's Medical Center, under the parent umbrella of North Shore-LIJ Health System, is the pre-eminent children's hospital on Long Island and is the largest provider of pediatric services in the state of New York, including pediatric cardiac surgery.
Established nearly 30 years ago, the pediatric hospital has evolved continually to keep pace with a growing population. The vision of Cohen Children's Medical Center is to become a national leader, recognized for providing outstanding family-centered, quality-focused and academically based care while conducting research committed to finding cures and innovative treatments for childhood diseases.
For more information, visit www.northshorelij.com/ccmcny/home
About the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization:
The Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) is an international consortium of health care professionals and scientists who are dedicated to the development and evaluation of novel therapies for support of failing organ systems. Crucial is the promotion of a broad multidisciplinary collaboration. The primary mission of the organization is to maintain a registry of, or at least the use of, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in active ELSO centers.
For more information, visit http://www.elso.med.umich.edu/
Monica Gonzalez
North Shore-LIJ Health System
516-465-2657
http://www.northshorelij.com/ccmcny/home
PR Courtesy of Online PR Media: http://bit.ly/rx3Hp4
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