The new ICU has been designed as a 20-bed unit. Each bed is placed in a spacious private room, whereas the old ICU was a 12-bed unit in a cramped space. Four of the beds are coronary care beds to support the new cath lab. The new unit has been specifically designed to ensure better privacy and more room for patients.
All the rooms are outfitted with multiple pieces of state-of-the-art equipment, including monitors mounted at each bedside and bathroom stations. Patients will be able to control the television and the lights and call for a nurse from the bedrest panel. The bed equipment also can be programmed to speak in different languages. Other state-of-the-art features at the ICU are 80 computers and ample storage room, several medicine cabinets and a nomadic tube system that connects to the lab and the pharmacy.
The waiting room at the new unit has been designed to fulfill visitors’ needs. A small conference room is located in the back where families can speak privately to physicians.
The City Hospital’s third phase renovation is expected to be completed in March 2011 with the completion of the new Emergency Department. City Hospital, Jefferson Memorial and West Virginia University Hospitals form a new not-for-profit healthcare delivery system for the Eastern Panhandle named West Virginia Hospitals-East.
