Intensive Care Suzanne Martinez, RN Director of Adult Inpatient Services (760) 339-7100
The Intensive Care Services provide comprehensive and age appropriate care to patients who are critically ill or injured in varying stages of recuperation from diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. There are two units: 1st Floor ICU is located on the first floor northeast of the hospital building and has a capacity for 8 multiservice critical care beds. 2nd Floor ICU is located on the second floor west of the new hospital building and
has a capacity for 12 multiservice critical care beds. Both units are especially equipped with bedside and centralized monitoring devices including cardiac monitors, invasive and non-invasive pressures, pulse oxymetry, cardiac output monitors and critical care beds.
2nd Floor ICU has four negative pressure isolation rooms and one positive pressure isolation room. All patient rooms are private single rooms with swing out toilets (3 rooms with regular toilets) and are equipped with hemodialysis hook-up for inpatient hemodialysis treatments. 1st Floor ICU has one negative pressure isolation and two beds hooked up for hemodialysis treatments.
A family Waiting Room is shared on the second floor for families of patients admitted to Medical Surgical and 2nd Floor ICU. A small dedicated waiting area for ICU is also available on the second floor.
The Intensive Care Services are staffed with especially trained Registered Nurses, Unit Secretaries and Telemetry Monitors. Services are provided for adult, geriatric, adolescent patients and children over 13 years of age 24 hours seven days a week. Both Intensive
Care Units are designed to allow for visual observation of patients while maintaining utmost privacy. |