New Adventist Health St. Helena Cardiovascular Suite Provides Leading-Edge Capabilities

Opening in the summer of 2022, the Adventist Health St. Helena Cardiovascular Suite and Ghiringhelli Hybrid Operating Room expands the Adventist Heart & Vascular Institute’s ability to provide the most advanced, cutting-edge heart and vascular care. Funded by the generous donors of St. Helena Hospital Foundation, the Cardiovascular Suite allows us to improve patient care while providing new capabilities for the many patients from around the region who choose Adventist Health St. Helena because of our multidisciplinary approach, dedication to excellent outcomes and highest quality experience.

Key features of the new Cardiovascular Suite:

• New Capabilities
  Home to one of the North Bay’s only hybrid operating rooms, an advanced procedural space that combines all the best features of an operating room with state-of-the-art X-ray and ultrasound-based imaging. This means an interdisciplinary team can combine both surgical and catheter-based techniques in the best possible environment, resulting in better outcomes and quicker recovery.
• Latest Technology
  Houses the da Vinci Surgical System, a robotic surgical technology that enables surgeons to perform even the most complex and delicate procedures through very small incisions with unmatched precision.
• Expanded Access
  Doubles Adventist Health St. Helena’s cardiac catheterization labs, allowing for better access to lifesaving care—both for a scheduled procedure or during a heart attack or other emergency.
• Streamlined Patient Care
  Improves patient experience and streamlines care by bringing patient reception and pre- and post-operative space directly adjacent to the operating rooms and catheterization lab.
• Streamlined Patient Care
  Improves patient experience and streamlines care by bringing patient reception and pre- and post-operative space directly adjacent to the operating rooms and catheterization lab.
• Dedicated Space
  Creates a home for all the equipment, supplies and technology necessary for the many complex cases performed by heart and vascular physicians and other surgeons, from minimally-invasive heart valve replacements to advanced arrhythmia procedures, so they are always at the team’s fingertips.

The new cardiovascular suite will allow the cardiologists and surgeons of the Adventist Heart & Vascular Institute to continue our mission to provide the latest, most advanced treatments to residents of the North Bay and beyond.