Southampton Hospital Opens High-Tech Stroke and Heart Center

The robotic arm of the Artis zeego allows patients to be scanned during procedures in Southampton Hospitals brand new hybrid operating room. Photo courtesy of Southampton Hospital.

By Mara Certic

Southampton Hospital this week opened the doors to is newest addition, the Audrey and Martin Gruss Heart and Stroke Center, which includes brand new, state-of-the-art equipment and is expected to provide help for people suffering from vascular diseases from across the East End.

For the past two years, a committee comprised of nurses, doctors ,and architects has met every week to fine-tune plans for the new center, which will make surgeries more efficient, reduce recovery time and allow the hospital to perform procedures it has never been able to do before.

Martin and I felt it was very important that our local hospital have the capability to conduct stroke and vascular distress intervention, Audrey Gruss said in a press release issued by the hospital.

Southampton Hospital is essential to all of us living in the East End, and we are honored to be part of its quest for excellence, she added.

The new center, which was designed by Victor Famulari Architect, PC, was created in what was mostly pre-existing space. The brick faade blends in with the rest of the hospitals exterior, but the inside of the new center looks more like an operating room from the future, than something one might expect in a small town hospital.

Im very excited. No, Im beyond excited, said Kathy Anderson, who has been an operating room nurse at the hospital for 24 years and sat on the planning committee for the new center.

Visitors to the center are met by a nurses station, new offices for nursing staff, and a centralized holding area for patients awaiting procedures. All the doors in the center open, not with a push or a pull, but with a simple wave of the hand, which will helpprevent the spread of germs and diseases.

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