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SPOTLIGHT: ST. CATHERINE HOSPITAL BY DEBRA GRUSZECKI

ENHANCED ICU OFFERS

ADVANCED HEALING
ENVIRONMENT
Renovation adds
technology, comfort
Denise Harris of East
Chicago noticed the difference in the enhanced
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) right away
while she was visiting a relative.
The redesigned, 9,000-square-foot ICU
at St. Catherine Hospital was rededicated
and opened to patients in December,
completing a $2 million renovation project. The 16-bed ICU offers added comforts and leading-edge technologies for
critical care patients and their loved ones.
"I spent a lot of time here in 2008
when my son was critically ill," Harris
says, recalling how the orientation
of the room back then seemed a
bit confining.
Now, with vital equipment hookup
panels tucked away, Harris has been
able to stay in the room as medical
staff cares for her family member.
"I don't feel like I'm in the way,"
she says.
Patient rooms were redesigned in a
way that opens up maneuvering space
for medical staff, nurses and visitors.
New, state-of-the-art critical care beds

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The new open-air-styled ICU features an oval workstation
with enclosed glass and multiple entry and exit points.

are positioned in a way that offers better
views of the windows, skylights and the
workstation. Vital equipment hookups
have been relocated to side and back
walls, and now all rooms are equipped
for dialysis.
"Our new ICU has been enhanced in a
way that provides our nurses, physicians

and their patients with one of the finest critical care facilities in Northwest
Indiana," says Paula Swenson, chief nursing officer and vice president of Patient
Care Services at St. Catherine Hospital.
The new open-air-styled unit features an oval workstation with enclosed
glass and multiple entry and exit points.



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