ST. LOUIS, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced ICU Care, a medical service company that provides critical care physicians (intensivists) to patients in intensive care units of community hospitals, announces that it has entered into an agreement with VISICU, Inc. to purchase a license for their eICU(R) technology. This sophisticated system enables remote monitoring and the ability to provide intensivist services to patients in multiple hospitals on a continuous basis.
Advanced ICU Care is the first organization outside of a hospital system to enter into a licensing agreement with VISICU. VISICU’s eICU solution can dramatically reduce mortality, hospital length of stay and greatly improve nursing staff satisfaction and retention (Critical Care Medicine 2004; 30:31-38).
“Advanced ICU Care is optimally organized to serve community hospitals that wouldn’t otherwise have access to intensivists, or this level of sophisticated technology,” said David Schopp, president, Advanced ICU Care. “Through Advanced ICU Care, community hospitals will be able to improve critical care delivery for better patient outcomes and reduced costs.”
Advanced ICU Care’s intensivists and critical care nurses will monitor ICU patients in real-time 24 hours a day, evaluating when interventions are necessary and alerting the appropriate personnel to respond. Currently being used to monitor more than 1,000 ICU beds, eICU technology puts no restriction on how far a community hospital may be in relation to Advanced ICU Care’s operations center, enabling care to be provided throughout the country.
“Critical care physicians, nurses and patients will all reap the benefits of bringing Advanced ICU Care’s expertise of intensivists into their ICUs,” said Dellice Dickhaus, medical director, Advanced ICU Care. “Community hospitals will realize improved patient satisfaction, nursing retention and lifestyles for its physicians while providing improved patient surveillance and proactive care.”
“The partnership between VISICU and Advanced ICU Care demonstrates how patients at smaller, individual community hospitals can benefit from this life-saving technology in addition to those at larger health systems,” stated Frank T. Sample, VISICU Chairman and CEO. “This represents the wide ranging applications of our eICU system for reducing both mortality and costs.”
About Advanced ICU Care
Advanced ICU Care is medical service company that connects the expertise of critical care medicine physicians (intensivists) and nurses to patients in intensive care units of community hospitals through a proven and patented clinical management and communications technology developed by VISICU, Inc. Advanced ICU Care is supported by a group of highly trained and educated critical care physicians and nurses that bring more than 75 years of clinical experience and have leadership in JCAHO compliance, educational programs for medical and nursing staff, development and implementation of protocols and care pathways and participation in SSM Health Care’s winning of the first healthcare Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. For more information visit: http://www.icumedicine.com/ .
eICU(R) is a registered trademark of VISICU, Inc. For more information, please contact: Ann Smith (314) 469-3500 asmith@standingpr.com
Advanced ICU Care
CONTACT: Ann Smith for Advanced ICU Care, +1-314-469-3500,asmith@standingpr.com
Web site: http://www.icumedicine.com/