Our Patient and Families
The CCMU is a 20-bed unit. Its patients are critically ill adults, 18 years of age and older. Beds are managed by the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine with the Department of Internal Medicine. The patients' medical diagnoses commonly include respiratory insufficiency or failure, hepatic failure, renal failure, sepsis, coma, hypertensive crisis, GI hemorrhage, endocrine/electrolyte imbalance, and post bone marrow transplant patients who are experiencing complications.

Philosophy of Care
The critically ill medical patient has the right to highly skilled, holistic care. It is the primary aim of the CCMU nurses to work as members of the health team to restore the patient to an optimal level of functioning. The team caring for the patient communicates with the patient and their family/significant others. Contact and communication between the patient and family/significant others is encouraged and facilitated through open visitation hours between 10:00am and 10:00pm. This unit's nursing care delivery system functions as a member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team, and features total patient care with interdisciplinary patient care rounds held daily.