Some people have heard of the ICU but don’t fully understand what goes on in an intensive care unit. Read on to learn more about these specialty hospital wards that help treat severe cases and provide ...

Different hospitals may use these specialized units for cardiac or critical care, which may be similar to an intensive care unit (ICU). Once you don’t need 24-hour critical or cardiac care, you will ...

New parents eagerly look forward to bringing their newborn home, so it can be frightening if your baby needs to be admitted to the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Babies who need to go to the unit ...

Respiratory and heart problems are the top reasons children are admitted to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in the U.S. (Photo Credit: Monkey Business Images/Dreamstime) What is the PICU? The ...

A year-long project to increase the size of the neurological intensive care unit at Mercy Health in Youngstown is now ...

Patient care handoffs represent an important transfer of information. 1, 2, 3, 4 Stand-alone electronic sign-out systems (such as Microsoft Word documents and ...

The neurointensive care unit at St. Elizabeth’s Youngstown Hospital expanded from four beds to 16 beds each in private rooms.