Suburban Life - Bucks/Princeton - Issue #2 (February 2024)

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SL_profile_Jeff Health_0224_Layout 1 3 / 4 / 24 11 : 37 AM Page 2 good job , ” he says . “ So when I say I bilities , but also in terms of its blossoming treat every patient as if they’re my own reputation . family , it’s not a cliché . ” “ This isn’t just a little community One of Dr . Singer’s areas of specialty hospital , ” she says . “ We’ve been doing is mitral valve repair . He cites a device heart surgery here since we opened called MitraClip ™ to treat patients who our doors [ in September 2012 ] , and it have symptoms associated with mitral has grown into a very comprehensive valve regurgitation — shortness of breath , program.Short of advanced heart failure , fatigue , rapid heartbeat , etc . By attaching transplants , and ventricular assist devices , the device to the patient’s mitral valve , we truly offer any surgical cardiac solu - he can restore the proper flow of blood tion there is . We also have a proven between the left atrium and the left track record of good outcomes . ” ventricle , curing their symptoms in the Forexample , the hospital earned a process . Healthgrades “ America’s 50 Best Hos - The expertise of Dr . Singer and his pitals for Cardiac Surgery Award ” for fellow board - certified cardiothoracic superior clinical outcomes in heart surgeons — namely , Alexandra Tuluca , bypasssurgery and heart valve surgery . M.D . , and Louis E . Samuels , M.D . — In addition , benchmarking data from enable Jefferson Einstein Montgomery entities such as the Society of Thoracic Hospital to offer the full gamut of cardiac Surgeonssuggest the hospital’s cardiac surgical services . While each surgeon patient outcomes are superior to those Dr . Raymond L . Singer hasprecise areas of specialty , the surgical of many of their peer hospitals across team can provide aortic valve surgery , the region and around the country . atrial fibrillation surgery , cardiac tumor “ Theseare exciting times , and we’re resection , congenital heart surgery , coro - not done yet , ” adds Dr . Samuels , chief nary artery bypass , and heart failure ofcardiac surgery for Jefferson Einstein and heart valve surgery , as well as min - Hospitalin Philadelphia . In other words , imally invasive cardiothoracic surgical patients can expect increasingly inno - procedures . vative cardiac care from Jefferson Ein - “ This team is unlike any I’ve ever stein Montgomery Hospital . worked with , ” Dr . Singer . “ Drs . Samuels , “ JeffersonHealth has invested a lot Tuluca , and I are like the Three Amigos , of resources into the Montgomery and we work very well together . We campus , and that has translated into are like a family . … I can tell you that infrastructure growth , ” he says . “ The when I need heart surgery , Drs . Tuluca communityhas expectations for a very and Samuels will be doing it for me . ” high quality of service , and we have As part of Jefferson Health , Jefferson beenresponsive to those needs . We’re Einstein Montgomery Hospital boasts ableto offer sophisticated , high - quality , the latest advances in cardiac interven - state - of - the - artcardiac surgery and car - tion . This includes everything from diaccare that is only going to grow and implantable devices for heart - failure expand . ” patients , to longer - lasting replacement As for Dr . Singer , in March he cele - valves , to minimally invasive procedures brateshis five - year anniversary of coming such as transcatheter aortic valve replace - to Jefferson Einstein Montgomery Hos - ment ( TAVR ) for the treatment of pital . He looks forward to facilitating the Dr . Alexandra Tuluca advanced aortic stenosis , or the nar - heart program’s continued evolution rowing of the aortic valve . over the next five years , with a patient - For cases that require more first culture that blends cutting - edge tech - advanced care than is readily available , nology and personalized care . the Montgomery campus recently “ We have the type of program that opened a helipad to enable prompt delivers health care the way it’s supposed patient transportation to and from the to be , ” he says . “ I give out my cell hospital . number to all my patients ; it’s printed “ I love everything about the work right on my business card . That’s the we do here , especially the fact that we kind of care I like to give , and that’s the can intervene and make an immediate level of attention patients can expect impact , ” says Dr . Tuluca , associate chief when they come here . ” ? of cardiac surgery and vice chair of the ? departmentof surgery for Jefferson Ein - stein Montgomery Hospital and Jefferson Einstein Hospital in Philadelphia . “ We Jefferson Einstein have an incredibly cohesive team , with Montgomery Hospital so many people coming together to get patients through something that 559W . Germantown Pike canbe quite challenging . ” East Norriton , PA 19403 Dr . Tuluca has been impressed by ( 484 ) 622 - 1000 how the heart program has flourished JeffersonHealth.org / at the Montgomery campus , not only EinsteinMontgomery Dr . Louis E . Samuels in terms of clinical expertise and capa - SUBURBANLIFEMAGAZINE.COM VOLUME 15 ISSUE 6 | 45

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SL_profile_PCG_0224_Layout 1 3 / 4 / 24 2 : 23 PM Page 1 Still Growing More than 20 years after they founded Pediatric Care Group P.C . , Drs . Marylee Mundell and Marie Carrier Kinsley build on their commitment to pediatric care with uncompromising quality and by B I L L D O N A H U E accessibility . arylee Mundell , D.O . , FAAP , and Marie Carrier yet the deep respect they have for one other , as well as their shared Kinsley , M.D . , FAAP , met while working for the commitment to providing exceptional pediatric care to their thousands same pediatric practice . The two colleagues became of patients , has enabled the practice to thrive . fast friends , and their friendship blossomed into a PCG treats patients from all points along the pediatric spectrum , Mbusiness partnership that has changed the face of from newborn up to 21 years old . Services include routine physical pediatric care in the Philadelphia area . exams and wellness checkups , illness diagnosis and management , Since co - founding Pediatric Care Group P.C . ( PCG ) in 2003 , Drs . special needs care , immunizations , sports physicals , and obesity and Carrier Kinsley and Mundell have offered an ever - widening scope of diabetes management , among others . Also , in recent years the practice services to pediatric patients from Bucks , Montgomery , and Philadelphia has adjusted its approach to address a significant uptick in patients counties , and even farther afield . Nearly a dozen care providers treat needing care for mental - health concerns such as depression , anxiety , patients at PCG’s original office in Jenkintown and a second location and attention deficit disorder . in Richboro , which opened its doors in 2020 . “ When Marylee and I first started this practice , neither of us were “ Continuity of care is everything , ” says Dr . Mundell . “ When we married or had kids , ” Dr . Carrier Kinsley recounts . “ A lot has changed expanded to a second location , we wanted to grow without sacrificing since then . My kids are now teenagers and young adults , so I find I’m G our quality of care . Our goal was to increase our accessibility but also better at giving advice to parents who have older children . Being able PC f to make sure patients and their parents received the same high quality to watch children progress from birth into adulthood has been a nice o y of care they’ve grown accustomed to , if not even better . ” s benefit of getting older . It has also helped me deepen the relationships rte The two board - certified pediatricians complement each other I have with patients and their parents . ” cou well . Whereas Dr . Mundell is bold and driven , Dr . Carrier Kinsley is While many local pediatric practices have chosen to sell to large tos easygoing and circumspect — ideal for a balanced partnership . Minor health systems , PCG has purposefully maintained its independence . ho disagreements sometimes arise , as they do in any healthy partnership , Doing so hasn’t always been easy , but the practice’s founders never P SUBURBANLIFEMAGAZINE.COM VOLUME 15 ISSUE 6 46 |

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