Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) has started expansion of its Heart and Vascular Unit (HVU) on the fifth floor of the Patient Pavilion. The opening of the HVU completes a three-year planned expansion of DHMC’s inpatient cardiology service line, adding 16 net new beds for a total of 82 cardiac care beds in the hospital.
“The activation comes at a time when our teams continue to manage extraordinary patient volumes and capacity demands across the medical center,” said David B. Min, MD, DHMC’s section chief of cardiovascular medicine. “The HVU move and expansion is one of several inpatient modernization milestones taking place this summer as teams across the medical center continue work to improve clinical environments, support patient care operations and respond to capacity needs now and in the future.”
Additional planned inpatient modernization milestones will continue at DHMC, throughout the summer, including renovation and unit moves of the medical intensive care unit, the surgical intensive care unit, and hematology and oncology inpatient spaces.
These projects are part of broader efforts to modernize aging facilities, improve patient and staff environments, and support the long-term infrastructure needs of DHMC. This work is funded through previously approved capital investments and bond financing dedicated to facility and infrastructure improvements.
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