Multidisciplinary cardiovascular care facility offers world’s most
advanced Cath Lab, including the Philips Azurion Image Guided Therapy
System
MIAMI -- (Business Wire)
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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Contacts:
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute
Georgi Morales Pipkin,
786-596-6534
georgip@baptisthealth.net
or
Royal
Philips
Silvie Casanova, 978-659-7467
silvie.casanova@philips.com
Source: Royal Philips
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