Health Minister Adrian Dix says the new facility, which is more technologically advanced and triple the size of the previous ICU, will open June 28 on the hospital’s second floor
Nanaimo Regional General Hospital is expected to open a long-promised new intensive care unit with 12 beds next week.
The unit will include bigger single-patient rooms, overhead patient lifts, a medication room and a family consult room. The 10-bed unit, built in 1970, was criticized as unsafe because of its limited size, layout and lack of storage. As well, it was difficult to move patients within the unit and in and out of the unit, the report said.An ICU handles patients with life-threatening illnesses or injuries, while a high-acuity unit delivers more acute care and closer monitoring than a general hospital ward but has fewer resources than an ICU.
Costs will be shared by the province through Island Health, the Nanaimo Regional Hospital District and the Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation.
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