MDNews - San Antonio

0 8 NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITIES In September, Bexar County Commissioners Court and the Bexar County Hospital District Board of Managers approved a financing plan to build new, state-of-the-art facilities for the HVI on the first floor of University Hospital's Sky Tower, which opened in 2014. The new facilities, to be located in 43,000 square feet of shell space, are part of a $390 million expansion that also will include a new 250-bed Women and Children's Tower to be built alongside University Hospital. The new HVI, which should be complete in late 2019, will include four to five catheterization labs, 28 cardiology treatment rooms, and 30 prep and recovery beds. Inpatient rooms for both cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery will remain on the ninth floor of the Sky Tower. Marc Feldman, MD, who holds the Joaquin G. Cigarroa, Jr., M.D. Distinguished Chair at UT Health, is Medical Director of the Cardiac Care Unit at University Hospital. The hospital's dedicated cardiac and vascular integrated operating rooms are on the second and third floors of the Sky Tower and include multiple high-resolution video displays and touch screen controls. One is a hybrid surgical suite combining the functions of an operating room and cath lab in one room. The Health System has its own cardiac rehabilitation center located at its Robert B. Green Campus near downtown, led by William Campbell, MD, a cardiologist and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at UT Health. University Hospital, named best hospital in the San Antonio area for the seventh year in a row by U.S. News & World Report, is rated as high performing in heart bypass surgery and heart fa ilure treatment by the maga zine. The progra m a lso was recognized with a 2017 Mission: Lifeline STEMI Receiving Center —Si lver Achievement Awa rd from t he A merica n Heart Association. In January, University Health System earned accreditation a s a Chest Pa in Center with Prima r y PCI ( percuta neous coronary intervention) by the American College of Cardiolog y. That accreditation means patients who arrive with chest pain are quickly eva luated and treated if need be, with the goa l of preventing heart attacks in the first place, says HVI Executive Director Sara Hansen. "The big part of the accreditation is early heart attack care," Hansen says. "The goa l is to get people here before they have a heart attack. We have a chest pain observation unit in the Emergency Department. If patients have certain symptoms, abnorma l labs or a histor y of hea r t problems, they 'll get a workup to determine whether they 'll be discharged home or admitted to the hospita l." Community education — teaching people to understand the signs and symptoms of a heart attack and to seek help imme- diately — is one of the responsibilities of an accredited Chest Pain Center. University Hospita l is part of a community wide heart a lert system of care to get those having a heart attack into the cath lab rapidly. "One of the most important things when you're having acute coronar y trouble is to go to a place that has people who are available to get a catheter into you and open up your arteries as quickly as possible," Dr. Ca lhoon says. For more information about the Heart and Vascular Institute at University Health System , Call 210 - 64-HEA RT or visit universityhealthsystem.com/services/cardiovascular. ■ A catheterization lab at University Hospital 0 8❱❱❱❱❱ C O V E R F E A T U R E The Cardiac Rehabilitation Center at University Health System's Robert B. Green Campus

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