Christiana to monitor remote Maryland ICU patients
Christiana Care Health System has agreed to remotely monitor patients in the intensive-care unit in six rural Maryland hospitals, all of which are more than 100 miles away from the Delaware-based health system.
Christiana Care Health System has agreed to remotely monitor patients in the intensive-care unit in six rural Maryland hospitals, all of which are more than 100 miles away from the Delaware-based health system.
Critical-care doctors and nurses at Christiana will use video and audio technology in their own hospitals to watch the patients in Maryland, where there is a shortage of specialized intensive-care physicians.
Christiana, which already remotely monitors 71 beds, will be adding 61 more in Maryland, said Spiros Mantzavinos, Christiana Care spokesman.
The Delaware staff will act as backup for Maryland doctors and nurses, he said.
The new program, which was announced today, was funded by a $3 million grant from CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield in Maryland.