iCare Intensive Care, Utilizing eICU Technology

What is iCare Intensive Care?
You have been admitted into a Banner Health iCare Intensive Care unit. Utilizing eICU technology, your doctor and nurses in the iCare unit are assisted in caring for you by board certified intensive care specialists and critical care nurses that are following your care from a monitoring center located in a separate facility. This monitoring occurs 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

How does it work?
With eICU technology, the intensive care specialists in the separate facility are able to help watch over you with telemedicine cameras in your room so they can see you, and with highly sensitive monitoring technology that has the ability to pickup early changes in your condition, should they occur. Once a change is detected, the iCare specialists in the separate facility work with your medical team to help determine what course of action is appropriate for your care.

Providing excellent patient care
Banner Health believes that our iCare Intensive Care program is an important service that can enhance our ability to provide excellent patient care to patients that require highly specialized intensive care. In fact, over the next three years every intensive care bed in a Banner Health facility will be a part of this innovative program and receive the extra level of monitoring it provides. The eICU technology provided through our iCare Intensive Care program is available in this area only in Banner Health facilities.

Your safety
Be assured that your physician in the hospital is directing your care, but now has a new partner through the intensive care experts in the iCare program. You also can rest assured that there are no extra costs as a result of your being placed in an iCare intensive care unit.

Here to help
Should you have any questions or concerns about your stay or iCare intensive care unit, please don’t hesitate to speak with your nurse or doctor.