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Welcome to Unity Hospital's Intensive Care Unit

We would like to orient you to the ICU and familiarize you with the specialized medical and nursing care that our patients receive. In the menu to the left, we introduce you to the health professionals who work here, and help answer questions related to procedures, progress, medications, treatments and general care.  

Unity's low mortality rate gets national recognition

Unity was recently recognized by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) as a hospital with low mortality (death) rates.
 
Two contributing factors were the implementation of medical response teams in 2004, and the introduction of hospitalists in 2002. The medical response teams gather at a patient's bedside when nurses sense a life-threatening problem. Unity's hospitalists see patients everyday to ensure that patients are receiving the best possible care, resulting in greater communication and continuity.

"The staff here is just outstanding. Everyone, the nurses, doctors, specialists, and support staff, contributed and should feel very proud," said Judy Hoaglund, RN, MA, a nursing leader at Unity Hospital.

More praise

Unity has also been recognized by IHI for work done on reducing ventilator associated pneumonia, going 448 days without a single case. Other initiatives include tight control on glucose levels for all ICU patients and reducing catheter related bloodstream infections.

ICUs at Mercy & Unity Hospitals win safety and innovation awards- Intensive Care Unit staffs at Mercy & Unity Hospitals are doing what health professionals thought could not be done. They are close to eliminating a costly and sometimes deadly infection among intensive care patients.

Implementing a Ventilator Bundle in a Community Hospital - Mercy & Unity Hospitals implemented the ventilator bundle concept as part of an Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) collaborative on improving care in the intensive care unit (ICU).
 

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