Thursday, 21 January 2021, 9:17 am
A one-stop-shop cardiology centre opened four years ago
is delivering on its promise to bring care closer to home
for Bay of Plenty heart patients.
The dedicated
Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory (Cath Lab) at Tauranga
Hospital took its first patient on the afternoon of Monday
16 January 2017. In the four years since the dedicated
facility opened, staff there have performed 1000
Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCIs). It brings the
number of PCIs, more commonly known as stents, performed in
total at Tauranga Hospital to 2000.
“The milestone
of 2000 PCIs has taken since 2012 to reach. So that’s five
years for the first thousand and now four years for the