More babies are born at Saint Peter's than at any other hospital in the state—and no wonder. Saint Peter’s University Hospital is the largest provider of maternity services in New Jersey, with about 6,000 deliveries a year.
After eight hours in bed, you still dread the morning alarm clock. You’re sleeping long enough, but not well enough, and you’re ready to nod off at quiet moments during the day. If this sounds all too familiar, you may have a sleep disorder.
Its name sounds like a science-fiction movie, but it’s real. One of the latest weapons in the battle against cancer, the CyberKnife combines sci-fi–like radiation technology with computer-guided imagery to destroy tumors without surgery.
These days, an ever-growing number of operations are performed on a same-day basis, with no overnight hospital stay. And many Americans are choosing to have these procedures not in hospitals, but in outpatient facilities known as ambulatory surgery centers, or ASCs.
The baby was in grave danger, no doubt about it. Debra-Lynn Day-Salvatore, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Institute for Genetic Medicine at Saint Peter's University Hospital, remembers the infant she saw 10 years ago as if it were yesterday.
The journey that took Tabiri Chukunta from a small Nigerian village to his present role as director of community outreach for Saint Peter's Healthcare System has all the makings of a modern Odyssey, and perhaps its key moment was the day he "died."
No one knows the doctor-nurse relationship better than orthopedic surgeon Donald R. Polakoff, M.D., recent winner of an "APPLE" award honoring that partnership-and no wonder.
As chief of plastic surgery at Saint Peter's University Hospital, and through humanitarian work around the globe, the versatile Dr. Olson does a lot more than tummy tucks.
