Critical Care Unit
570-268-2353
The Critical Care
Unit at Memorial Hospital is a specialty care unit. It is operational
24 hours a day, each day of the year and is designed to provide a concentration
of skills, equipment, and facilities for specialized medical and nursing
care for the critically ill patient.
This unit is for the
patient who requires continuous, comprehensive, and detailed intensive
care because of the critical nature of the patient's disease or illness.
A multi-disciplinary approach is utilized by consultations with dietary,
pharmacy, physical therapy, respiratory therapy and social services when
appropriate to meet the patients needs.
Rehabilitative and
preventative services are also provided by the initiation of patient education
and discharge planning. We provide intensive nursing and medical care
for critically ill patients. Care of the critically-ill patient is provided
by the physician and by highly skilled, certified critical care, all RN,
nursing staff.
For further information
about the Critical Care Unit at Memorial Hospital, call 570-268-2353.
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