Heart patients start to settle in

"The Rev. H.L. Deason looked around his new room Monday with admiration. "I like the colors," the retired Baptist preacher said. "Very easy on the eyes." The Rev. Deason got a new room without ever leaving University Hospital. He was among the first to transfer into the new Heart & Vascular Institute, Augusta, Georgia. The addition, which staff are calling "the tower," began getting patients Sunday, and the transfer from the hospital's cardiac units to its 72 patient rooms will go through Wednesday. The institute is the largest and most visible piece of University's $93.6 million renovation, which is all but complete now as patients and staff move in." - Augusta Chronicle