Sea Cliff Resident Receives New Heart Surgery

St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center®, New York State’s only specialty designated cardiac center, has performed the world’s first heart valve procedure using the new TELLTALE electrosurgical guidewire system to assist in the placement of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR).

The history-making first in-human procedure was performed at St. Francis Hospital by Jaffar Khan, MD, innovator of the BASILICA procedure, with George Petrossian, MD, and Newell

Robinson, MD, co-chairs of St. Francis Hospital’s structural heart program.

“Using the TELLTALE device, we were able to successfully treat a patient who was at high risk of TAVR-induced coronary obstruction,” commented Dr. Khan. “We were able to cut the diseased valve leaflet out of the way within minutes, allowing for safe and effective implantation of the TAVR valve. Bringing this therapy to Long Island reflects a very positive collaborative effort between the physicians here at St. Francis, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), MedStar Washington Hospital Center and Emory University Hospital. Ultimately, it’s our patients who will reap the benefits.”

This particular patient, Maria Stieglitz, age 77 of Sea Cliff, New York, says the entire experience could not have gone better. “There was no pain of any kind. And the doctors and nurses of St. Francis Hospital are fantastic. They took the time to carefully explain the procedure and answer all my questions. Everyone has been so supportive and caring. I felt like I was staying at a first-class hotel!” Stieglitz was the first to be enrolled in an Investigative Device Exemption (IDE) Pivotal Trial sponsored by The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the NIH. She was back to taking walks with her dog Mollie and tending to her garden within days of the procedure.

—Submitted by St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center

Raynham Hall Reflects On Women’s History Month, St. Patrick’s Day

A happy St. Patrick’s Day and Women’s History Month to you and all history lovers.

Raynham Hall intern, Olivia Hagan, has been conducting research on paid servants who worked for the Townsend family around 1870, and who were mainly Irish immigrants. Knowledge that Olivia gains on this topic will be integrated with our guided tours by this fall, helping us to better describe those who used the sleeping quarters viewable at the very rear of the historic house.

Olivia has uncovered that many immigrants were working in Oyster Bay at the end of the 19th century. Women who came over from Ireland were willing to work in domestic labor positions, where young, white American-born women in the workforce typically preferred jobs in shops and mills, even though domestic labor jobs were relatively high-paying. Irish social structure didn’t have a patriarchal hierarchy seen among other immigrant groups, so many young Irish women likely emigrated as unmarried women, allowing them to work independently in others’ homes.

Olivia’s ancestors came over from Ireland as teenagers, looking for work, and stayed primarily on the east coast of the United States, which was usual for other Irish immigrants. Her research can be compared to working on a puzzle starting from the edges, understanding broader stories of immigration, and moving to the center of knowl- edge we can share at Raynham Hall.

We appreciate Olivia and her Irish heritage, her passion for history, and her interest in working alongside us! Sláinte (Gaelic word meaning “health”).

—Submitted by Raynham Hall

Young single Irish women dominated domestic service in many American cities.

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