Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center Opens New Neuro Intensive Care Unit
Nov 13, 2017
Palm Beach Gardens, Fla- November 13th 2017-Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center now has a dedicated Neuro Intensive Care Unit (NICU) providing advanced, multidisciplinary, patient centered care for the most critically ill patients with neurosurgical, and neurological life threatening illnesses, including stroke, brain hemorrhage, and tumors.
As a primary stroke center, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center is part of the Advanced Neuroscience Network, a broad team of hospitals and doctors in Florida who are focused on offering a full continuum of care throughout South Florida.
“The Neuro Intensive Care Unit is designed to address the clinical needs of our neurological and neurosurgical patients to improve their outcomes,” said Dianne Goldenberg, chief executive officer of Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. “Our Neuro ICU is equipped with advanced minimally invasive monitoring and treatment techniques-both mechanical and pharmacological therapies to give our patients some of the most advanced care.”
The Neuro Intensive Care Unit team is comprised of healthcare professionals who are trained and experienced in both the neurological and medical management of the patients. The multidisciplinary team is led by board certified critical care neurologists. Together, the Palm Beach Gardens medical team will provide comprehensive and continuous bedside care.
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About Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center
Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center is a 199-bed acute care hospital serving the medical and healthcare needs of Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast for more than 45 years. The hospital was the first in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast to perform open-heart surgery and has since remained one of the area’s leading heart hospitals, having performed over 16,000 open-heart surgeries and more than 100,000 cardiac catheterizations to date.
The Heart & Vascular Institute at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center offers comprehensive cardiac care and advanced minimally invasive procedures including Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) and MitraClip. The hospital is the first in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin County to adopt the new minimally invasive convergent approach to treat patients with atrial fibrillation. Most recently, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center became the first hospital from Miami to Jacksonville to commercially utilize a fully dissolving heart stent in the treatment of coronary artery disease. Due to the outstanding work of the Heart & Vascular Institute, Palm Beach Gardens was the only hospital in Florida to receive all three Healthgrades® America's Best Cardiac Specialty Awards in 2017 – America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Surgery™, America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Coronary Intervention™, and America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Care™.
Additional services include orthopedics and joint replacement, a Certified Primary Stroke Center, diagnostic imaging, general and robotic surgery, an Epilepsy Program and 24-hour emergency care. Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center’s Emergency Department offers all private rooms and is equipped with technology to help increase patient comfort, reduce wait times and provide up-to-the-minute patient status, as well as immediate access to film-based radiological images, interpretations and related data. The hospital’s Epilepsy Program is the first of its kind in Palm Beach County to have a dedicated Epilepsy Monitoring Unit for patients in need of further assessment.
Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center has been recognized by The Joint Commission as a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures for four years in a row and by Healthgrades® as a Five-Star Recipient for the Treatment of Heart Failure for 10 consecutive years (2007-2016). The hospital was also the recipient of the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines – Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for three years in a row (2013-2015). Additionally, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center earned Chest Pain Center Accreditation from the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care. For more information or for a complimentary physician referral, please call 561-625-5070 or visit www.pbgmc.com.