Contact: Stephanie Mlinar, RN
Phone: (307)352-8325
Services
The Intensive Care Unit is a patient and family focused unit where care is provided for acutely ill medical and surgical patients across the age spectrum. A mix of highly qualified nursing personnel including Registered Nurses, Certified Nursing Assistants, and Unit Secretaries work as a coordinated team with with physicians of different specialties, including an intensivist or a critical care physician who is a physician specifically trained to care for severely sick patients, usually on life support measures. Patient and family centered care focuses on coordinating plans of care with patients, their families, ancillary departments, doctors, and other facilities; working to achieve the goals of recovery for the patient or transitioning the patient to services where the patient goals can be accomplished; working towards preventing complications; providing a healing environment; and caring for the patients and families with the intention of achieving the best possible outcomes. The ICU Team provides continual assessment of their patients from admission through discharge; provide all aspects of hemodynamic monitoring, administer medications, implement new diagnosis, and discharge education for patients and their families, and are attuned to preventing complication and responding to “intense” patient needs.
Visiting hours are around the clock for families & friends through checking in at the nurses’ station.