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Desert Valley Hospital in California, US has opened its new Heart Centre.

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The new facility has expanded the hospital by 50,000 square feet. It features an open-heart surgery suite to facilitate bypass surgeries and other life saving procedures. It also sports a digital X-ray imaging system, operating suites, a nuclear medicine camera, as well as a pair of cardiac catheterizations labs.

The new property incorporates 53 medical and surgical beds, along with an intensive and coronary care wing with a capacity of 12 beds. Among the various other features of the centre include two operating rooms, 12-pre-post procedure cath lab beds, four pre-op surgery beds, chapel, two large lobby areas, and waiting spaces.