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06.22.2020
Steps We Are Taking to Ensure Your Safety as the Pandemic Continues!
If you are hesitant to seek in-person care, please know we are prepared. We have enhanced our processes to protect the safety of our patients, employees, and physicians, and our commitment to high-quality and compassionate care remains. Please know we have taken the following actions:
• Monitoring the temperature of all patients, employees and physicians who enter our office. We have a simple questionnaire for patients to answer to determine risk.
• Nightly rigorously cleaning and sanitizing of all surfaces of our office as well as periodic cleaning throughout the day by office staff. All exam rooms are cleaned between each patient visits.
• Requiring masks be worn by all of our patients, employees, and physicians.
• Ensuring our employees and physicians have the appropriate personal protective equipment.
• Practicing social distancing throughout our facilities and wherever possible.
• Restricting access to patients only and providing telephone communication during office visits for family members who were unable to accompany patients.
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03.27.2020
New Jersey Urologic Institute, P.A. is excited to announce that we are now offering the opportunity to connect to your physician with the use of Telehealth Virtual Video Visits. These visits are convenient and enable you to have your office visit from the comfort and safety of your own home. A telehealth video visit will protect you from COVID-19, since you can remain safe and quarantined. Insurance companies and Medicare are covering these visits.
In order to participate in a Telehealth Visit, you will need a computer with video or a cell phone with a camera. Setup is free. An email will be sent to you with an appointment time and instructions on how to connect to the Telehealth visit. Our staff is ready to help you get scheduled and connected.
To setup a Teleheath Virtual Video Visit, please call our office at (973) 963-9091.
Please verify with our office PRIOR TO THE TELEHEATH VISIT that your insurance information and paperwork are up to date. All paper work can be downloaded, filled out and signed and is found on the “Patient Info” page found on the home page.
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02.01.2015
01.31.2019 Dr. Ilan Waldman of the New Jersey Urologic Institute is pleased to announce that his first patients have been treated with the UroLift® System, the first permanent implant to treat symptoms due to urinary outflow obstruction secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in men 50 years of age or older. Cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2013, the UroLift System is designed to relieve symptoms caused by an enlarged prostate, while preserving sexual function.
“Our practice is committed to providing patients with the highest quality, most effective options to address their urology needs,” said Dr. Ilan Waldman. “The UroLift System has an excellent safety profile and provides men suffering from an enlarged prostate a beneficial first-line treatment alternative to drug therapy or more invasive surgery. Importantly, the UroLift System provides fast and meaningful relief from BPH symptoms, improving overall quality of life for our patients.”
The UroLift System permanent implants, delivered during a minimally-invasive procedure, act like window curtain tie-backs to hold the lobes of an enlarged prostate open. Patients recover from the procedure quickly, and return to their normal routines with minimal downtime.
Data from clinical trials showed that patients receiving UroLift implants reported rapid symptomatic improvement, improved urinary flow rates, and sustained sexual function. Patients also experienced a significant improvement in quality of life. Most common adverse events reported include hematuria, dysuria, micturition urgency, pelvic pain, and urge incontinence. Most symptoms were mild to moderate in severity and resolved within two to four weeks after the procedure.
About BPH Treatment
More than 500 million aging men worldwide have an enlarged prostate. Medication is often the first line therapy but relief can be inadequate and temporary. Side effects of treatment can include sexual dysfunction, dizziness and headaches, prompting many patients to quit using the drugs. For these patients, the classic alternative is surgery that cuts or ablates prostate tissue to open the blocked urethra. While current surgical options, such as the 'gold standard' surgery, Transurethral Resection of the Prostate (TURP), can be very effective in relieving symptoms, they can also leave patients with permanent side effects such as urinary incontinence, erectile dysfunction and retrograde ejaculation (dry orgasm).
About UroLift
The UroLift System provides an alternative to tissue removing surgery for the treatment of an enlarged prostate. Performed through the urethra, a urologist uses the UroLift System to push aside the obstructive prostate lobes and positions small, tailored permanent UroLift implants to hold the prostate lobes in the retracted position. This opens the urethra while leaving the prostate intact. Adverse reactions associated with UroLift System treatment were comparable to other minimally invasive surgical therapies as well as standard cystoscopy. The most common adverse events reported during the study included pain or burning with urination, blood in the urine, pelvic pain, urgent need to urinate, and the inability to control urine because of an urgent need to urinate. Most symptoms were mild to moderate in severity and resolved within two to four weeks after the procedure.
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02.01.2015
The New Jersey Urologic Institute is awarded AIUM
Ultrasound Practice Accreditation! The Ultrasound
Practice Accreditation Council of the American
Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine is pleased
to announce that the New Jersey Urologic Institute
has been awarded ultrasound practice accreditation
in the area of Urologic Ultrasound. The New Jersey
Urologic Institute achieved this recognition by
meeting rigorous voluntary guidelines set by the
diagnostic ultrasound profession. All facets of
the practice were assessed, including the training
and qualification of physicians and sonographers;
ultrasound equipment maintenance; documentation;
storage, and record-keeping practices; policies
and procedures to protect patients and staff;
quality assurance methods; and the thoroughness,
technical quality and interpretation of the sonograms
the practice performs. The American Institute
of Ultrasound in Medicine is a multidisciplinary
medical association of more than 9900 physicians,
sonographers, and scientists dedicated to advancing
the safe and effective use of ultrasound in medicine
through professional and public education, research,
development of guidelines, and accreditation.
For more information, visit www.aium.org |
06.26.2014
The New Jersey Urologic Institute has met all
criteria for laboratory Accreditation by COLA,
a national healthcare accreditation organization.
Accreditation is given only to laboratories that
apply rigid standards of quality in day-to-day
operations, demonstrate continued accuracy in
the performance of proficiency testing, and pass
a rigorous on-site laboratory survey. The New
Jersey Urologic Institute has earned COLA accreditation
as a result of a long-term commitment to provide
quality to our patients. |
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