The management and medical staff of many community hospitals have experienced the difficulty and frustration of attempting to recruit a sufficient number of intensivists to staff their ICUs. The difficulty in recruiting intensivists to many community hospitals is due to:
- the nationwide shortage of critical care medicine physicians;
- the abundance of opportunities in major metropolitan areas where many of these physicians have trained; and
- the reluctance of some intensivists to practice in a hospital without high acuity and volume.
To address these challenges, Advanced ICU Care was formed. The company delivers intensivist expertise to ICUs through the use of sophisticated clinical management and communications technology, along with a process improvement program.