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 heart_center.jpg 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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