Patient Care Services

Expert care and comprehensive services are available at Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute at Morristown Memorial Hospital and Overlook Hospital, and patients can easily be referred from one hospital to another. So, no matter which hospital you live closest to, you can take advantage of our complete range of cardiac care services.

At Morristown Memorial Hospital:

• Our heart surgery survival outcome rates rival the state benchmark.
• More heart surgery is performed here than at any other New Jersey hospital. 
• We are a national leader in cardiac disease and treatment research.
• We run an innovative cardiac classroom in cooperation with the Liberty Science Center where students can view live heart surgery via satellite.
• We are recognized by Thomson Reuters as one of the top 100 hospitals in the nation for cardiovascular care.
• We are the only New Jersey hospital to receive the National Cardiovascular Data Registry’s ACTION Registry®-GWTG™ 2008 Silver Performance Achievement Award for improvement in the treatment of heart attack patients.
• We are designated as a Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

At Overlook Hospital:

• We are the first hospital in New Jersey granted permission by NJ Department of Health to perform emergency angioplasty, without on-site cardiac surgery, as part of a clinical trial.
• Our emergency care for heart attack patients is high ranked by the NJ Department of Health.