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Critical Care Center
The Critical Care Center at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center is part of 22,000 square feet of existing space adjoining the Ambulatory Care Center remodeled in 2001. The new unit was built to meet the future health care needs of people in Northern Illinois and ensures that OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center continues to provide high-quality care for those who need intense around-the-clock attention. Many patients are brought to the unit from our Level I Trauma Center.

Amenities featured in each room include a television, extra chairs and artwork. In addition, each room has a large window to let nature brighten the rooms with light. The new Critical Care Center has 19 private rooms and one extended stay room that can be converted into a semiprivate room. It is linked to the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, creating a seamless transition between what had been two separate care areas.

Our Critical Care Center combines advanced design features that benefit patients who need the highest level of care and their loved ones. Each room is large enough to accommodate state-of-the-art medical equipment as well as visitors. Extra storage in every room means life-saving equipment is within reach of our highly trained and experienced Critical Care team.

One nurse cares for two patients and rooms are accessible through full-sized sliding glass doors that can be closed and have blinds that can be drawn whenever necessary. Even when privacy is desired, nurses sit just outside the room in a "V" shaped nurse’s station and are able to look into the room through a window to monitor the patient. In addition, a large centralized care station provides specialty physicians and nurses an area to create and implement treatment plans.

The team of physicians, nurses, allied health and other healthcare staff work together as a team to ensure the highest possible care is provided.