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Published on May 23, 2023

A World Class Facility for World Class Heart Care

The future of cardiovascular care in the Piedmont is being built in Greensboro.

Greensboro –Groundbreaking on the latest part of a $160 million expansion of the Cone Health Heart & Vascular Center at The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro took place today. Cone Health is investing $200 million in its heart and vascular facilities in Greensboro and Burlington to treat heart disease today and prevent it tomorrow. 

Cone Health expects to see 1,000 more people a year with heart disease over the coming decade. The heart and vascular center investments will handle the increasing demand for cardiovascular services. More importantly, the expansions allow Cone Health to take a bigger role among a movement of experts who believe heart disease is increasingly preventable and reversable.  

Groundbreaking

“From the 1980s Cone Health has taken pride in being one of the best places anywhere when it comes to treating heart attacks,” says Dr. Mary Jo Cagle, CEO, Cone Health. “But the true value of health care is avoiding that heart attack in the first place. Our heart and vascular teams stand on the cusp of this future and this building will take us there.”

The groundbreaking at Moses Cone Hospital today will add a 160,000 sq. ft. tower. It will increase Cone Health’s use of AI, 3D imaging, fluid dynamics and medical trials to better treat heart disease and to spot it in earlier stages—often before symptoms arise. 

The 5-story building will bring testing, diagnosing, treatment and education for heart and vascular care under a single roof.  “Too often people see a doctor in one place, get tests in another and labs in still another building before circling back to their doctor,” says Ruth Fisher, vice president of heart and vascular, Cone Health. “There has to be a better way, and this is it.”

Key features: 

  • 78 Patient Exam Rooms
  • 25 Imaging Rooms
  • Vascular Procedures Lab
  • 775 Space Parking Deck (no parking fees)

Design work for the project has taken two years. Patients, community groups were part of the process. Features include:

  • Extensive use of art to calm and inspire.
  • Innovative use of design elements make finding one’s way through the building intuitive and less stressful.
  • Design that pays homage to the area’s textile past.

A traffic circle at Magnolia and Northwood Avenues will help traffic flows in the area. 

Hard Hats with Cone Health Logo

In other heart projects, work is already underway adding two more heart catheterization rooms at Moses Cone Hospital. A new fitness and wellness center opens this summer. Last June, ground was broken on a $34 million renovation and expansion at Alamance Regional Medical Center that will bring additional capabilities in treating irregular heartbeats. That opens later this year. All $200 million cardiovascular care improvements, including today’s project, should be completed in early 2025.

“Community hospitals invest in their communities,” adds Cagle. “They also bring the latest proven advancements for care to consumers. When you factor in the nationally ranked quality of heart and vascular care at Cone Health, there is simply no reason to go anywhere else for the best in heart disease treatment and prevention.”

Cone Health Heart & Vascular Center was named an IBM Watson Top 50 Heart Hospital in both 2022 and 2023.