Patient Stories

After open heart surgery, 7-year-old Lily's biggest concern was the availability of blue ice pops and the unpleasant taste of acetaminophen. “Considering that she had open heart surgery, I'll take those complaints any day!” said her mother, Denise.

How an expert team of pediatric specialists caught an active girl's heart defect. In many ways, Lily Diver is a typical ...

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"I can’t say enough about the RWJBarnabas Health nursing teams. They work hard, are caring and compassionate and I appreciated them through this entire process."

A very quick and noninvasive Coronary Calcium Scoring test, using a CT scan, detected a calcium build-up in Dan Harten’s ...

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“Dr. Fox saved my life. I’ve already recommended him and RWJUH Hamilton to so many of my friends and family. Hopefully, my story will instill confidence in others not to wait, to pay attention to the symptoms, and to seek medical attention immediately.”

After an impressive 40-year career as a law enforcement officer and criminal investigator, local area resident, Thomas ...

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“I was blessed to get to the right hospital. They saved my life.”

What happened to Debora Edwards shows how the procedure known as angioplasty or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) can ...

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“So many people had a hand in his survival. We could not be more grateful. We are very lucky and very blessed.”

Anthony Catanese, MD Anthony Catanese, MD, a urologist at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Somerset and a member ...

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