DULUTH – Essentia Health is lobbying Congress for a $1 billion plan to add ICU-capable beds around the country — including at Essentia's new hospital under construction in downtown Duluth. The ICU ...
An Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a specialized facility in most hospitals that is meant for critical patients who are extremely injured or ill and cannot function without the help of the monitors.
UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital doubled its intensive care unit and added state-of-the-art technology to better serve Longmont residents — thanks to community donors, including doctors and nurses. In an ...
Fulton Medical Center is getting a new name, a new look and three new intensive care unit beds. It's all part of owner Noble Health's ongoing effort to revamp and revive the hospital, which will now ...
Coronavirus cases are surging, hospitalizations are rising and public health officials are increasingly watching an important metric: intensive care unit capacity. The new stay-at-home order that hit ...
The COVID-19 ICU is quiet. Ventilators hum inside patient rooms, and sensors beep. The phone rings occasionally: sometimes another hospital floor calling, other times a family member inquiring about ...
When treatment in an intensive care unit no longer works, the more humane way is to shift the patient to comfort care.