Our hospital system includes a central 825-bed, short term, acute care teaching facility where heart transplantation is performed under regulatory approval.

Located 5.5 miles north of this main campus is a 107-bed cardiac specialty hospital which operates on a ‘single bed’ concept that allows patients to remain in the same bed throughout their hospital stay.

All rooms allow for the entire spectrum of care, including hemodynamic monitoring, perioperative and intensive care, and complete cardiac and device management.

At the onset of the expected surge of SARS-CoV-2, all elective cardiac surgeries and procedures were cancelled on both campuses.

Since the central hospital was to be redesigned for the care of COVID-19 patients, we administratively decided to transfer all advanced heart failure and cardiac transplant patients and services to the peripheral specialty hospital in an effort to protect immunosuppressed and vulnerable patients from exposure to SARS-CoV-2.

The specialty hospital did not have a single case of COVID-19 at the time of this writing.

Read More