Patient Tower Update

Creating a Continuum of Customized Care for Cardiology Patients

Construction Begins on Patient-Focused Center

Tower 10A is now home to a new specialized Cardiovascular Interventional Unit. Interventional cardiology and electrophysiology patients now enjoy a pod designed to allow clinicians to focus solely on customized care for patients admitted for a procedure in BWH’s cardiac catheterization or electrophysiology laboratories.

“Nursing staff on Tower 10AB have enhanced their knowledge base by attending specialized care classes and by observing operations in BWH’s Cardiac Cath Lab. The resulting advanced expertise will ensure even more focused and expert care for patients undergoing interventional cardiac procedures,” explained Claire Lynch, RN. 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.

“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 BWH’s Cardiac Catheterization Lab and Claire Lynch, RN, nurse manager of Tower 10A, has been instrumental with this new unit, which debuted September 13.