Banner Heart breaks ground on new labs, surgery suites
MESA, Ariz. (Feb. 14, 2009) – Ideal for a national holiday that celebrates the heart, nationally recognized Banner Heart Hospital – Arizona’s largest heart program – broke ground today on a 26,000-square-foot expansion for its third floor procedural areas. The $29.8 million project is scheduled to be completed in early 2010.
Banner Heart Hospital currently has four catheterization labs, one electrophysiology lab and four cardiac operating rooms. The expansion would add two operating rooms, one catheterization lab and one electrophysiology lab. The plan also features two shells for future use as catheterization labs.
The expansion also folds into the hospital’s mission of becoming a destination heart facility for the Southwest and beyond. The hospital may expand its robotics programs and add more innovations in the coming year.
Banner Heart Hospital CEO John Harrington said the proposed expansion is necessary to meet the need of the growing East Valley population.
“The new operating rooms will provide the infrastructure to adapt to new technologies, and continue leading the nation in robotics, electrophysiology and vascular care,” Harrington said. “Demand for our services continues to grow so we are expanding to meet the needs of the many communities we serve.”
ABOUT BANNER HEART
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.
