Healthcare finance principles and practices

Heart Hospital: A Combined Effort between Cornell University

and the New York Presbyterian Hospital

According to the American Heart Association, approximately 2,600 Americans die each and every day from cardiovascular diseases and claim an average of one life every 33 seconds. By building on the successes of the New York Presbyterian Hospital and Cornell University NYP will leverage its cardiac resources to educate, research, treat, and prevent the nation's and New York's number one killer.

The primary driving force behind NYP Hospital's design has been its efficiency to support advanced patient care, synergy of comprehensive cardiac services, and farsighted and visionary advances in medical technology. The planned facility will be a state-of -- the art wireless (digital) environment permitting physicians, nurses and other healthcare practitioners to be significantly closer to the medical consumer's bedside and the design of inpatient surgery and medicine step-down units will improve the workflow across all departments and cardiac services. In addition provisions will be made for there to be all private rooms promoting family involvement in patient care. Further patient and family lounges will be designed and constructed with families in mind, including children. The new facility will also support business centers with internet access and other appropriate and necessary services. The new facility will also support a new 5-story parking garage with an excess of 500 spaces.

The primary vision of the new Heart Hospital will be to provide cutting-edge cardiac services and care within reach of all five boroughs wherein the new facility will focus on medical consumer convenience while ensuring quality of care. The new facility will include an increased number of cardiac operating room, catheterizing labs, and electrophysiology labs (i.e., labs used to evaluate the human heart electrical system). The newly constructed facility will also include additional outpatient cardiac services, space for education programming, and a large conference room with library.