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UPDATE: Phase I Of New Heart Hospital Already Started

Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals and Clinics announced this morning that it will build the $18 million Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital.

The free-standing, seven-story structure will be located adjacent to and connect via sky bridges to Mother Frances Hospital.

During a breakfast at the hospital's Wisenbaker Conference Center, the Owenses were praised for generosity.

“This is a legacy gift that will go on for generations,” Lindsey Bradley, TMF chief administrative officer, said.

“Our goal is to have a nationally prominent heart hospital,” he continued.

Mrs. Owen said that in 2001 she received a quadruple bypass at Mother Frances Hospital and credited the hospital staff with saving her life.

She said after she and her husband celebrated their 55th anniversary, they decided to make the donation as their gift to each other.

Mr. Owen, a founder of Petrofac, said he was blessed to be successful in business and is now trying to help others.

Bradley said the Owen Heart Hospital will be focused not only on treatment, but also prevention and education. The entire family will be incorporated into the health care of the patient, he said.

TMF officials also announced that tonight they will launch a capital campaign for additional funding of the facility.

Hospital officials said they believe the $18 million gift is the largest private donation ever to a medical facility in this part of Texas.

The Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital at Mother Frances will be

completed in two phases. Phase One is currently being constructed inside

Mother Frances Hospital-Tyler's Ornelas Tower and is scheduled to open this December. Phase Two will begin construction in the spring of 2011 and should take 18 months to complete. The Heart Hospital will be seven stories, include numerous cardiac, thoracic and vascular services and stand east of and adjacent to Mother Frances Hospital. It will connect to the main hospital in several locations, allowing specialists and clinical personnel to easily access both buildings. Architectural plans are still being revised to determine square footage, number of beds and total cost of the project.

James Caccitolo, MD, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Trinity Mother Frances, said the new approach to heart care is a major improvement for heart surgery patients and the physicians and medical staff who treat them.

"The traditional approach for caring for heart surgery patients requires transporting them multiple times during their hospital stay, meaning a patient might be taken from the Chest Pain Center to the cath lab, to surgery, to recovery, to CICU, to step down and then to a room. All of this can take a lot of time and potentially slow the healing process,” said Dr. Caccitolo.

Updated Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 3:16 p.m. CDT

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