CAROLINA REGIONAL HEART CENTER

The mission of the Carolina Regional Heart Center is to fight heart disease -- the #1 killer in North Carolina today. Each board-certified cardiologist specializes in diagnosis, treatment, education and rehabilitation using cutting-edge technology to treat cardiac risk factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking, exercise.

The Carolina Regional Heart Center is proud and excited to provide this unique facility to our region, for patients not only from High Point but surrounding communities as well. Our Board-Certified Cardiologists have privileges at High Point Regional Hospital. For over 28 years, Carolina Cardiology Cornerstone has provided the latest technology to diagnose and treat heart disease, so that people live longer, more active lives.

Opened in January 2001, the 132, 000 square-foot, state-of-the-art Carolina Regional Heart Center is an outpatient facility that is dedicated primarily to providing the full spectrum of outpatient cardiac services.

Improving patient care and service has been the main objective of the center's development. The result is a unique, cutting-edge facility that expands and improves delivery of health services in the region. It is the only true physical facility that can be called a "heart center". Our five-story structure, which plugs into the main hospital on Elm Street, assembles under one roof all outpatient cardiac services, including prevention, physical care, diagnostics, treatment and rehabilitation.

The Heart Center complex was designed to accommodate this growth, and to provide ways for patients to conveniently get into the facility and access patent services. Although it is a stand-alone structure, the building is connected to the main hospital by corridors on every floor, providing immediate access to inpatient services. The concept of making the patient the number one element of design is evident as you move throughout the facility.

The first floor houses a medically directed fitness center and Heart Strides, the health system's cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation program

A cardiology pavilion, which provides all outpatient cardiac procedures, including diagnostic catheterization and coronary stents and angioplasty, takes up the entire third floor. This floor features an endoscopy lab, a cardiac catheterization lab, a vascular lab and a day hospital with 28 pre- and post-op patient rooms, almost twice as many as available in the main hospital's catheterization lab.