ICU Innovations is an educational platform that brings critical care expertise to community hospitals across South Carolina.
The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) started the ICU Innovations program in 2014 in an effort to expedite known best practices to the patient bedside at community hospitals statewide.
“Just because you’re in a rural community doesn’t mean you can’t get high quality best practice ICU care,” said Tallulah F. Holmstrom, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer at Kershaw Medical Center in Camden, South Carolina.
The program operates by sending staff members from MUSC in Charleston to partner hospitals to conduct seminars on various ICU care topics including optimizing ICU nutrition, mobility, care of mechanically ventilated patients, early recognition and treatment of sepsis, and other topics.
Holmstrom emphasized “The ICU Innovations program is dedicated to making sure that each and every team of providers- regardless of if they’re in an downtown urban or suburban area of if they’re in a rural hospital like here in Camden- that they have access to latest and best evidence to treat patients and then they have the processes and confidence to deliver that care.”
