The 120,000-square-foot heart hospital will have 90 beds. Medical center officials expect 6,000 cath lab procedures in the first year, with 8,000 annually within five years. The hospital expects to do 600 open-heart surgeries in its first year, and 800 per year by 2016.
The hospital will include an electrophysiology lab.
Dr. Benjamin Schuster performed Dayton’s first heart catheterization procedure at Good Samaritan Hospital in 1957 and helped open Kettering’s heart program in 1965.
Good Samaritan and Miami Valley hospitals are progressing on their own heart hospitals. Dayton Heart & Vascular Hospital at Good Samaritan will have its grand opening on Tuesday, Sept. 1, and Miami Valley Hospital will have its own ceremony to top off the skeleton of its heart tower on Sept. 14. Completion is slated for 2010.