Rural Areas of Maryland Get Life Saving Medical Services

eICU
We have partnered with Maryland eCare, to improve intensive care treatment at six hospitals in rural Maryland.

A shortage of experienced ICU physicians and nurses in rural settings is being addressed by “Maryland eCare,” with the help of a $3 million grant from CareFirst.  The collaborative effort establishes eICU® capability in each of six hospitals in the Delmarva area.

Area Hospitals Participating in eICU®:

• Atlantic General Hospital, Berlin
• Calvert Memorial Hospital, Prince Frederick
• Civista Medical Center, LaPlata
• Peninsula Regional Medical Center, Salisbury
• St. Mary’s Hospital, Leonardtown
• Washington County Health System, Hagerstown

They comprise one of the largest collaborations of independent hospitals in the nation and the only such partnership in Maryland.

These hospitals admit more than 66,000 patients a year.

The eICU® Advantage

An electronic intensive care unit – or eICU® – allows critical care specialists to remotely monitor seriously ill or injured patients.  The system combines modern medicine and emerging new audio/visual technologies so a patient’s condition can be fully assessed and quickly addressed to prevent complications.

The Maryland eCare remote monitoring center is based at the Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Delaware.  Christiana Care was the first medical center in the nation to adapt an eICU® monitoring system for critically ill patients.

* eICU® is a registered trademark of VISICU, Inc., (a Phillips Company in Baltimore, MD), developer of the eICU® program.