Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - as prisma health-upstate (prisma health) is a primary health care provider for the majority of upstate south carolina…

Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - as prisma health-upstate (prisma health) is a primary health care provider for the majority of upstate south carolina residents, maintaining appropriate capacity and services for this region is critical. Prisma health can accomplish this by ensuring that the right healthcare is available in the right settings. This project will create hospital capacity and space to perform routine outpatient cardiovascular procedures in a cost effective and appropriate setting. According to the SC department of health and environmental control (DHEC), heart disease is south carolina's leading cause of death. 11,385 south carolinians died from heart disease in 2020 and accounted for 75,886 hospitalizations during that same time, with total hospitalization charges of more than $6.8 billion. Currently the majority of both high and low acuity cardiovascular procedures are performed at prisma health's greenville memorial hospital (GMH). However, rising heart disease prevalence, an aging population, and higher acuity has led to an increase in overall hospital utilization for cardiac patients, putting a significant capacity constraint on the GMH facilities. Cardiovascular outpatient procedures in greenville county are expected to grow 16% by 2026 and 32% by 2029. As the primary health system in the upstate, IT is imperative that we are prepared to meet this demand. The project consists of renovating 4,000 square feet and expanding 4,400 square feet of space on the first floor of prisma health-upstate's patewood hospital, for a total of 8,400 square feet, to build out two procedural electrophysiology labs and a prep and recovery area. This will allow prisma health to shift lower risk cardiovascular procedures from prisma health's greenville memorial hospital (GMH) to its patewood hospital and complement patewood's current service portfolio of offering outpatient/short-stay, low-risk services. The project will provide leading-edge technology and advanced treatment moda lities to address the public health heart disease crisis, while freeing up needed space for higher acuity cardiovascular interventions and treatments at GMH. Shifting routine outpatient procedures to patewood hospital will not only create capacity at GMH but will optimize the delivery of care by creating the ability to adapt the staffing levels at each location to the level of procedure complexity.