Patients recovering from open-heart surgery remain in the same room from pre-surgery check-in until hospital discharge. We bring medical care and expertise to you.

Experience the Blessing Difference: Cardiovascular Unit (CVU)

There are many benefits to a CVU with a universal bed concept. These benefits include:

• Commitment To Excellence: Our Blessing Hospital Cardiovascular Unit is recognized as a Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois.

• Better patient-provider communication: You receive care from the same nursing staff throughout your stay. This continuity of care improves patient safety by reducing the risk of miscommunication and errors.

• Enhanced patient monitoring: We provide around-the-clock specialized care, including 24-hour heart monitoring. We respond immediately to patient needs.

• Centralized care: Our nursing staff has advanced training in cardiac medicine and critical care. We care for patients from preoperative procedures to critical care to discharge. There is no need for you to change rooms or hospital units.

• Teamwork: You receive compassionate care from a team of dedicated heart experts, including cardiologists, cardiovascular and surgical nurses, respiratory therapists, clinical care coordinators, dietitians, pharmacists and social workers. 

• Privacy: All of our CVU rooms are single-bed, private rooms. Here, you get the rest you need to heal and recover. You also can have confidential conversations with your health team and loved ones.

• Care that focuses on you: We treat our patients like family. You will see the same familiar, helpful faces at your appointments and throughout your course of treatment.

Who Can Use the CVU?

The Blessing CVU provides patient-focused, specialized care for those recovering from:

• Heart surgery

• Vascular surgery

• Thoracic surgery

• Arrhythmias

• Heart attacks

• Congestive heart failure

CVU Visitor Information

To protect the health of patients and ensure they have quiet time to rest and recover, we request that you follow these rules when visiting the CVU:

• Visitors are welcome from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. every day.

• There is no visitation between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.

• Only 2 people may visit a patient at a time.

• Infants and young children under age 12 are not allowed in patient rooms. They may stay in the waiting room under an adult’s supervision.

• Please do not call patient rooms before 8 a.m. or between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. when doctors are seeing patients.

• Due to infection risk, we do not allow flowers and potted plants in patients’ rooms. We will place flowers or plants in the waiting area or give them to family members.

• We recommend designating a family spokesperson. This person can convey information from the patient’s medical team to other family members and loved ones.

Find the CVU

To get to the CVU:

1. Enter the hospital’s main lobby.

2. Take the elevator to the third floor.

3. Turn left upon exiting the elevator and walk down the hall.

4. The CVU is located at the end of the hall.   

Contact Us

To schedule an appointment with a cardiologist, please call 217-214-3424. To view upcoming heart related events please click here.