Middletown, N.Y.-based Garnet Health's Peter Frommer, MD, Heart Center launched an open-heart surgery program.
The program, in partnership with NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, is the first of its kind in the county, according to an April 10 system news release.
Led by cardiothoracic surgeon and medical director Michael Argenziano, MD, the program offers a variety of procedures, including coronary artery bypass grafting and aortic and mitral valve replacement and repair.
The program has already completed its first open-heart surgery on a 71-year-old man.