Monitoring
Rural ICU
Patients
Critical care patients at Memorial Hospital and Manor in Bainbridge, Georgia, and Coffee Regional Medical Center in Douglas, Georgia, are receiving access to additional care and remote monitoring through Emory Healthcare’s eICU (electronic Intensive Care Unit) services, based in Atlanta. From the Emory eICU Center, located at Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital campus, Emory eICU physicians and nurses monitor ICU patients at Memorial Hospital and Manor and Coffee Regional Medical Center remotely, while providing consultation and expertise.
The services are a form of telemedicine, using state-of-the-art technology to provide an additional layer of critical care for ICU patients. The continuous, 24/7 monitoring and access to intensivist or critical care physicians and other support staff, particularly on night and weekend shifts, are crucial to smaller regional and community hospitals.
"This collaboration between Emory and rural hospitals is critical to providing needed intensive care services in these rural communities."
— Dean Burke, Former State Senator, District 11 and Former Chief Medical Officer at Memorial Hospital and Manor
From the Emory eICU Center, located at Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital campus in Atlanta, Emory eICU physicians and nurses monitor ICU patients in Bainbridge and Douglas remotely, while providing consultation and expertise.
From the Emory eICU Center, located at Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital campus in Atlanta, Emory eICU physicians and nurses monitor ICU patients in Bainbridge and Douglas remotely, while providing consultation and expertise.
During night and weekend shifts at smaller outlying hospitals, intensivists may not always be present to assist onsite physicians and providers, so additional resources are often needed to care for some of the sickest patients in a hospital. Our services provide consult via a video and audio platform to onsite physicians, staff, and patients, where we can see and communicate bi-directionally between the regional or community hospital and the Emory eICU Center in Atlanta.
“The recent pandemic showed policymakers the importance of high-level critical care services being provided locally when regional systems were filled beyond capacity.
This eICU grant program will support the rural hospital while providing needed high level critical care access close to home.”
Emory eICU Center also provides remote critical care monitoring services to Washington County Regional Medical Center in Sandersville, Georgia.
"We feel this service will complement the great care our team provides every day and will allow us to keep more critical patients close to home and family."
"Our collaboration with Emory permits Coffee Regional Medical Center access to both quality initiatives and state-of-the-art resources for our patients and caregivers.”
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