St. James Hospital has opened two state-of-the-art ICU-designated rooms. The openings mark a major advancement in critical care services for the Hornell community, allowing patients requiring ...

Hospitals are working hard to control bacterial infections that patients can acquire, and a new study shows that introducing private rooms in an intensive care unit can slash infection rates by more ...

In an acute care hospital, the intensive care unit staff must effectively use specialized equipment, while making split-second decisions pertaining to the care of a large number of medically fragile ...

Multidrug-resistant organisms may be spread around patient rooms by textile cleaning wipes, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control. Researchers analyzed 91 samples ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. It is the new conventional wisdom in hospital design and certainly seems like common sense: if you put ...

More very sick patients in Hornell may be able to stay closer to friends and family as St. James Hospital moves to expand its intensive care services. The hospital said Tuesday a pair of "state-of-the ...

Public health investigators linked two cases of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections in hospitalized patients to their most likely source -- a sink in the intensive care unit (ICU) room where both ...

A stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) is, for most patients and their families (a term I’ll use broadly, to include all loved ones), the scariest and most traumatic experience of their life.