The Heart Center complex was designed to accommodate this growth, and to provide ways for patients to conveniently get into the facility and access patent services. Although it is a stand-alone structure, the building is connected to the main hospital by corridors on every floor, providing immediate access to inpatient services. The concept of making the patient the number one element of design is evident as you move throughout the facility.

The first floor houses a medically directed fitness center and Heart Strides, the health system's cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation program. Here you can also enjoy a healthful meal in the Heart Healthy Cafe.

The focus on patient convenience and accessibility is showcased on the second floor, which houses several functions: admitting and pre-registration for inpatients and outpatients; pre-assessment; outpatient imaging, including separate imaging for women's services; and administration. Before the center opened, patients had to travel back and forth between separate buildings for admitting and pre-assessment services.

A cardiology pavilion, which provides all outpatient cardiac procedures, including diagnostic catheterization and coronary stents and angioplasty, takes up the entire third floor. This floor features an endoscopy lab, a cardiac catheterization lab, a vascular lab and a day hospital with 28 pre- and post-op patient rooms, almost twice as many as available in the main hospital's catheterization lab.

Carolina Cardiology Associates office occupies the fourth floor. Cardiothoracic surgeons Dr. Stephen Mills and Dr. Bill Tucker will have offices on the fifth floor, along with a women's resource center and the offices of Pinewest Ob/Gyn. This floor will connect to the maternity and pediatric wards on the main hospital's fifth floor.

The Carolina Regional Heart Center is proud and excited to provide this unique facility to our region, for patients not only from High Point but surrounding communities as well.

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