ATLANTA, Ga. — With heart disease being the leading cause of death in Georgia and around the country, the need for advanced cardiac care services has never been more critical. Grady Health System took a major step forward in meeting this challenge with the opening of the Correll Cardiac Center.
The 21,000-square-foot project, designed by LEO A DALY, consists of renovation and expansion of the center’s cardiac catheterization lab, stress lab and administrative support areas on the second floor.
“Grady will now be able to treat a higher volume of cardiac patients effectively and efficiently by providing a new setting for electrophysiology and other diagnostic services,” said Jerry Voith, AIA, managing principal of LEO A DALY Atlanta. “This will truly impact the services Grady offers to the community.”
“The electrophysiology lab will allow us to perform procedures that we were previously unable to do at Grady. For example, through a technique called ablation, we will use wires to go into a patient’s heart to fix a rhythm disturbance by creating a series of burns inside the heart,” said Dr. Allen Dollar, Grady’s chief of cardiology and assistant professor of medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine. “This is just one of the many new procedures we will be able to do thanks to the new Correll Center.”
“This project realizes Grady’s goal to provide advanced cardiac care for every patient in the metro Atlanta area,” said Leslie Saunders, AIA, ACHA, LEO A DALY’s healthcare market sector leader. “We are proud to partner with Grady on such a critical project.”
The renovations include a new eight-bed admission/recovery area with clear sightlines from the nursing stations, as well as support areas and storage rooms, a catheterization lab primarily used for electrophysiology procedures, a larger stress-testing lab with two stretcher bays and two treadmill stations, a comfortable waiting room for families and five physician offices. The corridors leading to the department have new finishes.
The $5.4-million project was funded through generous gifts from former Georgia Pacific Chairman and CEO Pete Correll, wife Ada Lee and their friends.
