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More Focus on Service Excellence
Tower 10A is now home to a brand new specialized Cardiovascular Interventional Unit. Interventional cardiology and electrophysiology patients now enjoy a pod especially designed for them, allowing clinicians to focus solely on customized care for patients admitted for a procedurein the BWH cardiac catheterization or electrophysiology laboratories.
“As we continue to perform more interventional cardiac procedures with growing complexity and improved novel devices, the new 15-bed pod creates a seamless continuum of highly specialized quality care for patients before and after procedures,” said Andrew Selwyn, MD, medical director of Tower 10A, who, along with Campbell Rogers, MD, director of the BWH Cardiac Catheterization Lab and Claire Lynch, RN, nurse manager of Tower 10A, has been instrumental with this new unit, which debuted September 13.
“Nursing staff on Tower 10AB have enhanced their knowledge base by attending specialized care classes and by observing operations in the BWH Cardiac Cath Lab. The resulting advanced expertise will ensure even more focused and expert care for patients undergoing interventional cardiac procedures. It is also our goal to provide more smooth and timely patient movement before and after their cardiac procedures. Each patient will benefit as his or her individual learning and discharge needs will be more carefully tended to by all members of the specialized patient care teams on Tower 10A,” added Lynch, who explained the new unit launch as a collaborative effort involving not only cardiology and nursing, but admitting and other key hospital departments.