An expansion for Endeavor Health Edward Hospital’s cardiovascular services has reached a significant step to move forward.
What is the Edward Heart Hospital expansion?
Parent company Endeavor Health will be adding two new operating rooms adjacent to its two existing operating rooms and a new Intensive Care Unit with 10 beds dedicated to cardiovascular services, all on the fourth floor of the Edward Heart Hospital . Two other existing operating rooms will be relocated to another floor in the process to make space.
How will it be funded?
The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board approved Endeavor Health’s Certificate of Need for the $29-million project. The funding comes from money the hospital already has in its capital improvement budget, but required approval by that board.
Addressing growing needs
President of Endeavor Health Yvette Saba says the project addresses the growing incidence of cardiovascular disease.
“While we’ve made huge strides in preventative medicine and cardiovascular disease, we have an aging population,” said Saba. “Plus there’s a greater incidence of obesity which leads to all sorts of other things, things like hypertension, coronary artery disease.”
In addition, the expansion addresses a capacity issue, with the rate at which existing ICU beds are being used far exceeding state standards, according to System Vice President for the Endeavor Health Cardiovascular Institute, Catherine Smith…