Virtual ICU Technology Saving Lives at Missouri Hospital

St. Mary's Health Center, an SSM Health Care facility in Jefferson City, Mo., is having success with a virtual ICU program, used in conjunction with its in-house program. Since adopting the virtual ICU technology in 2006, ICU mortality dropped by 24 percent after one year; cardiac arrests plunged by 69 percent; ICU patient total length of stay fell by 14 percent; and there have been no cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) since the program's inception.

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