Pioneering care and innovation come together in the expansion of Emory University Hospital’s new heart and vascular facilities, with a mission to better serve patients in Georgia and beyond. The state-of-the-art care spaces with advanced technology are the result of an $87.7 million investment from Emory Healthcare.
Following three years of meticulous planning, space design, construction and preparation, the enhanced and fully equipped spaces in the hospital will open for procedural services beginning March 19, with cardiovascular critical care services already underway.
The new facilities, located on the third and fourth floors of the Emory University Hospital Tower, and referred to as “3T” and “4T North,” feature a new 16-bed cardiovascular intensive care unit (CV-ICU), a suite of new cardiovascular and thoracic operating rooms (ORs), catheterization laboratories (cath labs) and electrophysiology laboratories (EP labs), all with innovative technology and the latest equipment to advance patient care.
Floor-to-ceiling windows in many of the rooms allow natural light to enter much of the new space. Locating the various procedure areas in one space allows efficient use of resources and facilitates comprehensive patient care by having multiple specialists nearby and available to meet the patient’s needs.
“These new heart and vascular facilities will allow us to greatly enhance patient care, grow procedural capacity and access, and continue to foster innovation and excellence across the whole service line,” says Angel Leon, MD, executive director of Emory Heart & Vascular. “I could not be prouder of our team at this moment.”
At Emory Healthcare’s opening celebration on March 12, cardiac surgeon Mani Daneshmand, MD, second from left, led tours through the new facilities, like this technologically robust hybrid operating room.
The idea for a re-conceptualized Emory Heart & Vascular space expansion first began to percolate during the early…
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