MUNSTER – A highly-trained team of Community Hospital medical professionals is providing critically ill patients with the specialty care they need while being transferred between hospitals. The Adult and Neonatal Critical Care Transport team, developed by Community Hospital and Prompt Ambulance, was established to ensure consistency in quality high risk care and decrease response turnaround.
The Critical Care Transport Team members include a respiratory therapist, physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant and nurse trained in specialty care medicine. Members of the team on each transport are based on individual patient situation. The transport, a fully-equipped intensive care level ambulance, enables the team to provide non-stop monitoring and vital life support for neonatal, neurological, respiratory, cardiac and trauma patients.
“The benefit to our critically-ill patients is tremendous when we can ensure their safety while getting them the extra resources they need,” Donald P. Fesko, CEO, Community Hospital. “With the team and the transport ambulance centrally located at Community Hospital in Munster and just a phone call away, it can reduce the response time when high-risk patients need to be transferred for additional care.”
“When you have very sick patients – seconds can be imperative,” she said. “You have to immediately respond, and if you have to wait, then the patient can suffer. Here, we have one team coordinating care. It’s a seamless way for our patients to receive care no matter where they are in our hospital system,” McKay said.
