PHOTO GALLERY: Truman Veterans Hospital shows new operating rooms

April 13, 2012 | 4:54 p.m. CDT

The new cardiothoracic operating rooms at the Harry S. Truman Veterans' Hospital were shown to hospital staff Friday. The rooms will be used for procedures once they are sterilized and functional.

Robert Overstreet, an operating room technician, shows a new cardiothoracic operating room to other staff members and visitors at Truman Veterans Hospital on Friday. The staff had the chance to see the room before it is sterilized and becomes functional, when only certain members of the staff will have access. | Leah Beane

Green and white LEDs illuminate a new cardiothoracic operating room, one of six at Truman Veterans Hospital on Friday. The hospital performed around 200 open-heart surgeries last year and plans to exceed that number this year. | Leah Beane

Tracy Reeves, an operating room nurse, explains the specially balanced overhead lights to Kathleen Neason, a registered nurse, and Ashlee Hollomon, a supply technician at an open house at Truman Veterans Hospital on Friday. Reeves will work in the operating rooms after they are sterilized and become functional. | Leah Beane