Features of Quality Care
Intensive Care Medicine
The Department of Critical Care Medicine was established in 1996, with 95-bed medical and surgical ICUs. There are five adult intensive care units (ICUs), consisting of two medical ICUs with 38 beds (19 each), one 29-bed surgical ICU, one 19-bed neurological/neurosurgical ICU and one 9-bed cardiac ICU. The department, staffed with 10 full-time attending physicians and 14 nurse practitioners, coordinates a critical care team consisting of residents, senior nurses, nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, dieticians, rehabilitation therapists, social workers to provide high-quality critical care to patients in the ICU.


