Here are eleven heart centers opening, upgrading or expanding:
- HCA Florida Ocala Hospital opened a new $15 million cardiac procedural unit facility.
- Corewell Health, with dual headquarters in Grand Rapids and Southfield, Mich., held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new intensive care unit at the Health Fred and Lena Meijer Heart Center in Grand Rapids.
- Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center opened its new Dao Family Cardiovascular Suite.
- Rancho Mirage, Calif.-based Eisenhower Health expanded its cardiovascular care with a $156 million, four-story outpatient cardiology ambulatory center.
- Naples, Fla.-based NCH Healthcare System proposed a five-story heart institute to the local design board.
- Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Patient Pavilion will open in May and increase cardiac beds by 25 percent.
- Laredo (Texas) Medical Center is using $6.9 million to upgrade two interventional cardiology suites.
- Victoria, Texas-based Citizens Medical Center is set to open its advanced heart failure center clinic in February.
- Iowa City-based University of Iowa Heart and Vascular Center upgraded its existing labs and added two procedure labs.
- Ascension St. Vincent Birmingham (Ala.) opened a $7 million in-patient cardiology unit.
- Corewell Health, with dual headquarters in Grand Rapids and Southfield, Mich., is planning to build an outpatient cardiovascular surgery center.