View the many videos about the Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center, which Connie Milstein helped to create.  OrLive.com is an incredible resource, offering videos about the cutting-edge technology at the Heart Center, the doctors who work there and the care that patients receive.

The much-awaited Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has many incredible features and assets.  As a driving force behind the project, Connie Milstein and her family helped to pave the way for this comprehensive inpatient and outpatient facility.

The new facility includes amazing specialists who bring expertise in coronary artery disease, electrophysiology and more to the center.  It has 20 new cardiac ICU beds, offers non-surgical alternatives, features a dedicated Diabetes and Heart Education Center and a Preventive Cardiology Program, and includes an environmentally friendly and award-winning design.  The building features recycled materials and is supposed to be 30% more energy efficient than a standard building.  The new facility has already received the 2009 Award of Merit in Health Care from New York Construction Magazine.

This past January the newest and most advanced cardiac treatment center opened its doors. The Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center is the latest achievement accomplished by Connie Milstein to establish a state-of- the-art cardiac research and treatment center at the prestigious New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. The $260 million facility on the Upper West Side opened up on February 1st after an explosion of heart shaped streamers filled the air at the dedication ceremony which was attended by Connie Milstein and her brother Philip, who donated $50 million of the cost of the enterprise. Dr. Herbert Pardes was also in attendance. Dr. Pardes is the President and Chief Executive of the hospital. He explained at the ceremony why the Milstein center is such an important addition to health care quality in the New York area:

“We’ve been having more and more demand, and we need the facility to back it up. (With the construction and completion and opening of the new facility) we have an extraordinary improvement in technology for heart disease.”