Access to Expert Care Quickly
Because of our advanced level of care and participation in research, Akron General's Critical Care Center receives patients from other area hospitals and hospitals all over the state of Ohio. Our partnership with MedFlight, an emergency ground and air transport service, allows physicians to choose the right kind of transportation to Akron General from all over the State of Ohio counties, to get patients here quickly. Vehicles are staffed by experienced critical care nurses and paramedics and offer some of the same technology as advanced emergency departments and intensive care units. MedFlight also serves Grant/Methodist Hospitals and the Ohio State University Medical Center.
Patients and their physicians have the reassurance of 24-hour access to critical care specialty units and our stroke and trauma teams. It takes just one phone call to the Akron General's Physician Ready Access Line for physician-to-physician contact, to connect the transferring physician or hospital with the right Akron General service. Making patient transfers easier and faster, and care even more immediate.
Akron General's Critical Care Center has fully implemented and supercedes ICU Physician Staffing recommendations (IPS) of The Leapfrog Group - an initiative driven by organizations who purchase healthcare who are working to initiate breakthrough improvements in safety, quality and efficiency of healthcare for Americans. This means that our units are staffed by critical care intensivists 24 hours a day, they are available for consult within five minutes and provide clinical care exclusively to critical care patients.
Capable and Ready to Treat the Most Severe Illnesses and Injuries
Our physicians care for both medical and surgical patients and have experience in treating patients with the most vital care needs, including stroke, sepsis, trauma and more. Critical care nurses staff Progressive Intensive Care (PICU), Surgical Intensive Care (SICU), Medical Intensive Care (MICU), Coronary Care (CCU), Cardiac Surgery Unit (CSU) and Progressive Coronary Care (CCU).
Akron General's Critical Care Center takes a multidisciplinary approach in caring for patients who are suffering from complications or advanced forms of life threatening illness or injury. Critical care physicians also work with specialists in other areas, such as Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Neurosurgery, Neurology, Interventional Radiology, Cardiology and Gynecology, depending on the needs of the patient, to provide the best, most comprehensive care available.
Stroke Management
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Emergency/Level-I Trauma Center
Radiology
Heart & Vascular Center
Visiting Hours
Educating the Community on Prevention
The Critical Care Center provides academic and community education to local community hospitals, community organizations, emergency medical services (EMS) groups and support groups.
Your Good Health Calendar
Training the Future of Critical Care
Akron General's Critical Care Center's multidisciplinary program, in association with Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM), assists in training residents and medical students.
Surgical residents studying general surgery, plastic surgery, orthopaedics and urology are trained under the supervision of the chief of trauma service and Surgical Intensive Care director. Emergency Medicine residents and NEOUCOM medical students also have training experiences with the Surgical Intensive Care Unit.
Most residency programs rotate through a Critical Care experience under the supervision of the intensive care physicians. Medical students can also choose a senior elective experience in Critical Care. Through in-depth curriculum modules, formal conferences and Grand Rounds, the program education provides clinical and research knowledge and skills related to critical care that enables residents to become confident practitioners, educators and investigators.
Medical Education & Research
