Multidisciplinary cardiovascular care facility
offers world’s most advanced Cath Lab, including the Philips
Azurion Image Guided Therapy System
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute has completed its $120
million expansion project on the Baptist Hospital campus. The
state-of-the-art facility includes additional space and
cutting-edge technology, facilitating the creation of several new,
specialized programs bringing together multidisciplinary teams of
specialists to treat the cardiovascular system as a single
entity.
The expansion added 60,000 square feet of new space and included
40,000 square feet of renovations, nearly doubling the size of the
Institute to 150,000 square feet in order to accommodate a growing
number of patients and procedures. Since it was founded in 1987,
Institute physicians have pioneered less-invasive techniques to
treat aneurysms, stroke and heart disease, and have been part of
many groundbreaking research trials.
For 30 years, Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute has been an
integral innovation partner for Philips, a world leader in
healthcare technologies, providing valuable clinical insights that
have led to the development of industry-leading solutions such as
the recently announced Philips Azurion Image Guided Therapy (IGT)
system. The expansion includes a state-of-the-art Cath lab,
representing the first North American installation of Azurion. The
system is designed to anticipate what clinicians need, when they
need it, to make procedures flow intuitively and support a superior
patient experience.
“This expansion allows us to be at the forefront of medical
innovation and provides the most current treatment options for our
patients, while at the same time, prepares us to be in the position
to care for health problems we haven’t even encountered yet,” said
Barry T. Katzen, M.D., Chief Medical Executive and founder of the
Institute. “We are now able to conduct more research, offer new
services and make discoveries that could transform how
cardiovascular care is delivered.”
Throughout its history, the Institute’s physicians have
pioneered less-invasive techniques to treat aneurysms, stroke and
heart disease, and have been part of many groundbreaking research
trials. The newly expanded Institute, with its cutting-edge
equipment and unique programs, allows our internationally respected
physicians to continue their visionary work.
One of the first elements of the three-year project was the
expansion of Baptist Hospital’s Surgery Center, which now includes
six large operating rooms dedicated to neuroscience, cardiac,
vascular and robotic surgery. The Institute also added four new
advanced endovascular suites with enlarged gallery viewing areas
for enhanced teaching and learning opportunities. “This is the
centerpiece of the expansion, the Center for Advanced Endovascular
Therapies,” Dr. Katzen explained. “We wanted to create an
environment in which we could do any type of predominantly
image-guided procedure, where physicians of different disciplines
could work together to create unique solutions for patients’
problems.”
In designing interventional suites of the future, two of the new
endovascular suites have glass walls and a video system that allow
people to sit in a theater-style chair outside of the suite and
control what they are watching using an iPad. Viewers from
different disciplines or in training each can have their own unique
user interface that allows them to pick and choose which parts of
the procedure they want to watch, all with communication with the
suites.
Additionally, the Institute makeover created the National Center
for Aneurysm Therapy — the first in the world — a Center for
Structural Heart Therapy, Center for Critical Limb Ischemia and an
Advanced Arrhythmia Therapy Center. It is here where physicians are
doing research to discover more cardiovascular disease
breakthroughs.
“We are proud to open the doors of the new Miami Cardiac &
Vascular Institute to our community,” said Brian E. Keeley,
President and CEO of Baptist Health South Florida. “This expansion
now provides even greater promise to our patients, with new
state-of-the-art interventional procedure suites; an expansive,
high-tech gallery for observation, diagnostics and greater teaching
opportunities; and, research space for more than 120 clinical
trials.”
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute is the largest and most
comprehensive cardiovascular facility in the region, consisting of
76 doctors and 1,100 employees system-wide serving 125,000 patients
every year.
“At Philips, we are committed to building a healthy society by
creating solutions that are going to have a meaningful impact in
improving human health, and this requires collaboration with
pioneering organizations like Miami Cardiac & Vascular
Institute,” said Brent Shafer, CEO of Philips North America. “The
Institute’s clinical insights have been critical to the development
of our Azurion technology, from understanding workflows and
improving efficiencies, to understand how to improve the patient
experience. Together, we are shaping the future of healthcare by
making procedures safer and more efficient. This will not only help
address the health issues in South Florida communities, it will
allow us to apply those lessons globally to help tackle the
challenges of rising healthcare costs and better access to care.
Ultimately, we want to improve the patient experience and outcomes,
one community at a time.”
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About Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute is the largest and most
comprehensive cardiovascular facility in the region. The team of
multilingual, multidisciplinary specialists has pioneered the
development of minimally invasive techniques used to treat
aneurysms, blockages in veins and arteries and holes in the
heart.
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute is part of Baptist Health
South Florida, the largest healthcare organization in the region,
with seven hospitals (Baptist Hospital, Baptist Children’s
Hospital, Doctors Hospital, Homestead Hospital, Mariners Hospital,
South Miami Hospital and West Kendall Baptist Hospital), nearly 50
outpatient and urgent care facilities, Baptist Health Medical
Group, Baptist Health Quality Network and internationally renowned
centers of excellence. The not-for-profit, faith-based Baptist
Health has approximately 16,000 employees and 2,300 affiliated
physicians. Baptist Health South Florida has been recognized by
Fortune as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in America and
by Ethisphere as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies. For
more information, visit BaptistHealth.net and connect with us on
Facebook at facebook.com/BaptistHealthSF and on Twitter and
Instagram @BaptistHealthSF.
About Royal Philips
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a leading health
technology company focused on improving people's health and
enabling better outcomes across the health continuum from healthy
living and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care.
Philips leverages advanced technology and deep clinical and
consumer insights to deliver integrated solutions. Headquartered in
the Netherlands, the company is a leader in diagnostic imaging,
image-guided therapy, patient monitoring and health informatics, as
well as in consumer health and home care. Philips' health
technology portfolio generated 2016 sales of EUR 17.4 billion and
employs approximately 71,000 employees with sales and services in
more than 100 countries. News about Philips can be found at
www.philips.com/newscenter.
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