Bringing the Best Technology to Our Patients
Jacqueline Fernandez, R.N., and Renee Pomicpic, R.N.,
ICU nurses at Memorial Hospital Los Banos
As ICU nurses at Sutter-affiliated Memorial Hospital Los Banos, Jacqueline Fernandez, R.N., and Renee Pomicpic, R.N., appreciate having extra tools – like Sutter Health's eICU® system – to help care for patients.
"In the ICU, patients need to be monitored one on one 24/7," says Fernandez. "We're giving great bedside care, but it's comforting to know that we have an extra layer of care in our eICU center."
Through the eICU technology, intensivists and specially trained nurses use early warning software and advanced video and remote monitoring to keep an even closer eye on critical-care patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There are two eICU hubs that help monitor critically ill patients across the Sutter Health network: one in Sacramento and one in San Francisco.
"When a patient's vital signs change, we have another team of doctors and nurses who we can consult right away," adds Pomicpic. "It's nice to know that we have an extra set of eyes caring for our patients."
"Our eICU is just one example of what Sutter Health is doing to use technology to improve safety and patient care across the system," says Toni Brayer, M.D., FACP, Bay Region chief medical officer, Sutter Health. "We're also making vital investments in other new technologies such as our electronic health record, our electronic bar coding, and the PACS system, which is digital X-ray technology."
"I am here to tell everybody that I am living proof that Sutter Health's technology saves lives," says Carol Robles, of Los Banos, whose life was saved thanks in part to monitoring from the Sacramento eICU site. "Thank God for Sutter."