The Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at Rhode Island Hospital has been recognized as one of the top eight intensive care units in the country for exceptional quality of care. Based on the results of a project sponsored by the National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC) and the Institute for Health Care Improvement (IHI), Rhode Island Hospital’s MICU was selected from among 180 hospitals throughout the country and was the only one chosen in New England.
The project involved a request to hospitals throughout the country to submit data and other documentation that exemplified exceptional quality of care or the implementation of innovative care. For the project, quality was defined as providing safe, effective, patient-centered, timely and equitable care. Also taken into consideration were examples of innovative care that lead to excellent outcomes as well as intensive care units (ICUs) who have implemented interventions or processes that could be broadly applied to other ICUs. Rhode Island Hospital was noted for its end-of-life care and for reporting on outcomes. The stories from each of the eight ICUs will be compiled and published in a monograph to be released by the NCHC in late spring.
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Rhode Island Hospital is a Lifespan partner and a major teaching hospital for Brown Medical School. Founded in 1863, it is a private, not-for-profit hospital and is the largest of the state’s general acute care hospitals. It serves as the Level 1 trauma center for Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts.
