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BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Vitamins and supplements are not the best way to lower your risk of heart disease, instead Cardiologist Dr. Je Park says eating in moderation and nutritious foods is the most bene cial.

According to Park, of Aurora Denver Cardiology Associates at e Medical Center of Aurora, aIS vitamins can help the body but they can also be harmful as there are also toxicities.

“If vitamins were universally acceptable to improve heart health, then I believe that there would be a strong push for the FDA to approve these and say, everyone with heart disease should be on these vitamins, these supplements,” said Park. “But there’s never going to be that push.” e risk of heart disease is not strictly determined by the food one consumes. Rick factors also include environment and genetics.

Tower project e project, which started in 2020, involves construction of a new tower on the hospital’s campus. Chief Operating O cer Karl Leistikow said it will cost more than $72 million, as the construction’s breadth has expanded since the original project was pitched. e new tower will be completed in phases as each oor is built with new amenities for di erent units.

It will include a cardiac services oor, a blood cancer/oncology oor, an orthopedics and spine oor, a oor for sterilizing equipment and possibly several other oors, Leistikow said.

Although these services already exist in di erent areas of the hospital, Leistikow said the new setup will provide more concentrated efciency and better environments for patients and sta alike.

“We get to create custom units for custom services,” he said “ ese rooms are phenomenal. ey’re all uber-high tech. It should have all the bells and whistles of any major hotel room.”

More importantly, Leistikow said, the new spaces will improve care for patients.

“ ere’s volumes that are growing in this community and we’ve outgrown our footprint,” he said. “In this tower, this gives us a lot more exibility to be able to address those needs consistently instead of trying to manage each situation independently.”

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Emergency department

In addition to the new oors, the project includes renovation of the hospital’s emergency department to create a larger space with more capabilities.

While the new space is being constructed, emergency room patients will receive treatment in the temporary space where sta transported equipment and services. e temporary space already includes many new features of the enhanced department.

To improve emergency services, Tsipis said hospital sta is implementing a new triage process.

In a traditional emergency room, a patient speaks a triage nurse or technician before meeting a provider, he said. In the new process, patients will meet a nurse and provider at the same time in their rst encounter

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“ e idea is that we want to hear your story, we want you to have to tell your story as few times as possible and we want to get your care started as quickly as possible,” Tsipis said. “We’ll be able to get that process started from your rst encounter coming into the (emergency room), which we hope will just kind of help a patient’s experience and give them the safest version of their care.”

Vice President of Emergency Services Elisha Nunley said another element of the new department is adding more vertical space, meaning areas where patients are sitting in a reclining chair to receive their care.

According to a study in the Journal of Emergency Nursing, this model can create more e cient care by maximizing use of space and reducing patients’ length of stay.

“I think the great opportunity in this is that we got to really work through our barriers because we have been experiencing crowding, loss of privacy and a lot more medicine that’s being done in the waiting room to get care started quickly and make sure our patients are safe,” Nunley said.

In the new space, she said there will be more room for patients to receive care with more privacy.

Tsipis added the hospital has been seeing increasing complexity and numbers of patients in the emergency department because Swedish Medical Center. located in Englewood, o ers a complex array of services and many facilities transfer their patients there.

When the nal emergency department space is complete, patient capacity will be increased by 16%, he said.

How to get there

e emergency department entrance to the hospital has moved a a short distance from its previous location, but is still located near the corner of South Logan Street and East Girard Avenue, Tsipis said. e entrance is closer to the parking garage than it was before.

“It’s very close to where they’re used to dropping their loved ones o at the (emergency room),” Tsipis said.

Free valet services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, he said. Signage will lead drivers to the correct entrance, and once there, hospital sta will direct them to the emergency services area.

For Nunley, the tower project is an amazing opportunity to better serve more patients in the community.

“It just supports the need in the community,” she said. “All of the emergency care team, you know, we have a heart for our community.”

Tsipis added that the project is especially rejuvenating for his team in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which took a lot out of healthcare workers.

“When it comes down to helping patients — when you see it leading to more e ective, e cient, safe, high quality care for a patient — I think that’s what keeps you doing what you’re doing,” he said. “And I think our team really feels that.” spring 2023

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