{"id":955,"date":"2015-03-09T11:06:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/?p=955"},"modified":"2015-03-09T11:26:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:26:16","slug":"after-triple-bypass-and-aortic-valve-replacement-steves-heart-belongs-to-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/2015\/03\/after-triple-bypass-and-aortic-valve-replacement-steves-heart-belongs-to-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"After Triple Bypass and Aortic Valve Replacement, Steve&#8217;s Heart Belongs to Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SJ Businessman Has Life-Changing Heart Surgery at Cooper <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Steve Ravitz is a prominent South Jersey businessman. With more than 50 years in the supermarket industry, not much rattled this entrepreneur\u2014until he heard the words \u201cheart surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went blank,\u201d said Mr. Ravitz. \u201cI had no symptoms and a routine medical exam and cardiac test completely changed my life.\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/sSYkrQ7J-PfkgzvIG.html\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ravitz underwent a stress test and failed. A cardiac catheterization proved that not only did he have blocked blood vessels in the heart, but he would also need a valve replacement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI called my children. I started planning and putting my personal matters in order. I was scared,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Within a few days, Mr. Ravitz was on the operating room table of Michael Rosenbloom, MD, Head of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Cooper University Health Care. \u201cIt was a complex procedure because we not only had to complete by-pass surgery, but his aortic valve needed replacement, both of which are important surgeries to ensure his heart would function properly in the future,\u201d said Dr. Rosenbloom.<\/p>\n<p>The surgery went beautifully, and Mr. Ravitz spent the next week recovering in the new private-room cardiac unit at Cooper University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t an easy recovery. I was tired, I was depressed, but I knew one positive thing; I was alive,\u201d commented Mr. Ravitz.<\/p>\n<p>Within six months after surgery, he was back running his ShopRite supermarkets across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ravitz reflects, \u201cmy heart literally belongs to Cooper.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SJ Businessman Has Life-Changing Heart Surgery at Cooper<\/p>\n<p>Steve Ravitz is a prominent South Jersey businessman. With more than 50 years in the supermarket industry, not much rattled this entrepreneur\u2014until he heard the words \u201cheart surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[191,4660,4659],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-mmanibo","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-955","7":"format-standard","8":"category-videos2","9":"post_tag-dr-rosenbloom","10":"post_tag-heart-surgery","11":"post_tag-triple-bypass"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}