New Correll Cardiac Center Opens at Grady

September 4,2013

CAP Member, Grady Health System has unveiled the new Correll Cardiac Center. The state-of-the-art facility includes an electro-physiology lab and a 24/7 catheterization lab, expanding current services and capabilities to make Grady a comprehensive cardiac center.   The center is named for Grady Memorial Hospital Board Chairman A.D. “Pete” Correll and his wife Ada Lee.

“This is a proud day for Grady and the patients we serve,” said Grady President and CEO John Haupert. “It is very fitting that we honor our board chair with this new cardiac center. He has been the heart and soul of Grady’s amazing transformation over the last five years.”

The new center occupies 11,000 square feet of renovated space on the second floor of Grady Memorial Hospital.

“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 of 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.”

In addition to new treatment areas, new, more comfortable waiting rooms have been created for patient family members.