FacilitiesUniversity of Utah HospitalLocated at the base of the rugged Wasatch Mountains on the eastern foothills of Salt Lake City the University of Utah Hospital overlooks the Salt Lake City. It is a modern, tertiary care facility with 425 licensed beds. The hospital is currently in an expansion project that will add 280,000 square feet of clinical space which will add 133 state-of-the-art private patient rooms. |  |
Cardiology patients are centralized on the fourth floor where the catheterization laboratories, medical intensive care/coronary care unit, and telemetry unit/cardiology medical ward are located. The three catheterization suites are equipped for standard hemodynamics and angiography, endomyocardial biopsy, interventional catheterization, intravascular ultrasound, electrophysiologic study, interventional electrophysiology, defibrillator and pacemaker implantation. Computerized intraoperative mapping equipment is also in use. The intensive care unit on the fourth floor has 12 beds for both cardiac and medical intensive care. Other cardiology patients are admitted to the cardiology ward of 32 beds in private and two-bed rooms. This ward has the capability of telemetered ECG monitoring of all 32 beds. Cardiology outpatients are seen five days a week in the Cardiovascular Center on the first floor of the hospital. The Cardiovascular Center is a large clinic space with two large procedure rooms for outpatient procedures. The echocardiography laboratory, electrocardiography/exercise laboratory are also located in the Cardiovascular Center. The non-invasive laboratories include several color-flow doppler and echocardiography units, transesophageal echocardiography, stress echocardiography, treadmill, VO2 measurement, and central computerized ECG. The latter serves the University Hospital and several outlying sites with computerized ECG interpretation and archiving.
Affiliated Hospitals
Twenty members of the Cardiology Division faculty are involved in patient care activities at the George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salt Lake, which is located one-half mile from the University Hospital. Most of the services and facilities provided at University Hospital are also available at the VA Hospital. There are also four Cardiology Division faculty members involved in patient care at LDS Hospital in downtown Salt Lake City.
Research FacilitiesCardiology Division faculty use research laboratories in numerous locations on and off campus. These facilities include: Wet labs, Molecular Pathology lab, computing and electronics facilities, dynamic confocal imaging laboratory, Human Molecular Biology and Genetics laboratory and tissue typing laboratory.
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