Cohen Children's Medical Center gets state approval to perform pediatric heart transplants
The hospital is the first on Long Island to be allowed to perform the procedure, needed by about 500 children in the U.S. annually.
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Cohen Children's Medical Center is now home to the first pediatric heart transplant program on Long Island.
It says it is ready to perform the lifesaving procedure as soon as needed.
Until now, Long Island families whose children needed a heart transplant had to travel into Manhattan for care.
Dr. Jake Kleinmahon, the medical director of Pediatric Heart Transplant at Cohen, says they have been working toward this for more than a year, and have the staff and space ready to go.
