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Opened in January 2001, the 132,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art Carolina Regional Heart Center is a $28 million dollar outpatient facility that is dedicated primarily to providing the full spectrum of outpatient cardiac services. The complex's gray masonry façade blends almost seamlessly with the contemporary exterior of High Point Regional Hospital's main building. Along with the adjoining 568-space parking deck, the Heart Center makes a dramatic addition that has significantly reshaped High Point Regional Health System's Elm Street campus.
Improving patient care and service has been the main objective of the center's development. The result is a unique, cutting-edge facility that expands and improves delivery of health services in the region. It is the only true physical facility that can be called a "heart center". Our five-story structure, which plugs into the main hospital on Elm Street, assembles under one roof all outpatient cardiac services, including prevention, physical care, diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation.
Total outpatient volume at High Point Regional increased from 22,911 in 1995 to more than 37,000 in 2000, according to the hospital's annual report. The number of procedures provided in the hospital's cardiac catheterization labs has doubled in the past five years, increasing from 2,310 in 1995 to more than 4,600 in 2000. Before the center opened, outpatients and inpatients were treated side-by-side in the hospital's two catheterization labs and electrophysiology rooms. Now outpatient and inpatient services are segregated.
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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.
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 while Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons of High Point 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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