Correll Cardiac Center Expands to Help Heart Disease

ATLANTA — The renovation and expansion project at Correll Cardiac Center, located in Atlanta, debuted on Sept. 4. The main goal of the project is to provide sufficient space to help aid the growing number of heart disease patients in Georgia, as heart disease is the leading cause of death in the state.

LEO A DALY, with offices in Atlanta, served as the architect on the 21,000-square-foot project. The renovations consisted of a new eight-bed admission and recovery area, which provides clear sightlines from the nursing stations, as well as support areas and storage rooms. A new catheterization lab primarily used for electrophysiology procedures was also incorporated into the project, as well as a larger stress-testing lab with two stretcher bays, two treadmill stations, a comfortable waiting room for families and five physician offices.

The enhancement allows the cardiac center to provide more services to patients. “The electrophysiology lab will allow us to perform procedures that we were previously unable to do at Grady. For example, through a technique called Ablation, we will use wires to go into a patient’s heart to fix a rhythm disturbance by creating a series of burns inside the heart,” said Dr. Allen Dollar, Grady’s chief of cardiology and assistant professor of medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine. “This is just one of the many new procedures we will be able to do thanks to the new Correll Center.”

Former Georgia Pacific Chairman and CEO Pete Correll, his wife, Ada Lee, and their friends helped fund the $5.4 million project.