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.”