Banner Heart Hospital opens new heart care unit

MESA, Ariz. – Banner Heart Hospital opened a new heart care unit this week, adding more areas for open heart and vascular surgery, catheterization procedures and patient recovery.

Banner Heart Hospital currently has four catheterization labs, one electrophysiology lab and four cardiac operating rooms. The $29.8 million expansion will add two operating rooms, one catheterization lab and one electrophysiology lab. The plan also features two shells for future use as catheterization labs.

The expanded wing of the third floor adds more space for patients to prepare for and recover from surgery. It also expands the hospital’s outpatient services, allowing for patients to spend less time in the hospital and more time recovering in the comfort of their own homes.

With the increased procedural capacity and enhanced approach to focused patient care, the hospital will be able provide more prime time operating room and cath lab time for its surgeons and cardiologists, and provide an overall improved approach to patient care, said Banner Heart Hospital CEO Laura Robertson.

“We are a nationally recognized hospital, but we strive to also be recognized as the premier cardiovascular program in Arizona,” Robertson said. “We perform more open heart surgeries than any hospital in Arizona, and serve heart patients statewide and beyond.”

These new areas will allow Banner Heart Hospital to answer a growing need in its community for excellent heart care. The facility already performs more than 6,000 catheterization procedures annually and more than 800 open heart surgeries, making it the busiest open-heart center in the state.

Published on behalf of Banner Heart Hospital
Banner Heart Hospital is one of the largest free-standing heart hospitals in the nation. It has been named as one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® for cardiovascular care by Thomson healthcare business for three consecutive years. This annual award for cardiovascular services objectively measures performance on the key criteria at the nation’s top performing, acute-care hospitals. Banner Heart is home to the Southwest’s premier robotic surgery program, with more than 300 procedures already completed. Banner Heart Hospital opened in 2000 and is the only heart hospital in the East Valley, serving Mesa, Apache Junction, Queen Creek, Gilbert Payson, Globe and many other communities.