Intensive Care Unit

Stamford Hospital 's Intensive Care Unit, located in the Whittingham Specialty Care Pavilion, treats critically ill adults with a wide variety of medical and surgical illnesses and injuries.

The intensive care team includes board-certified physicians with specialized expertise in intensive and critical care, numerous medical and surgical sub-specialists, house physicians, and an extraordinary group of nurses and respiratory therapists who work in conjunction with patients' primary care physicians. The needs of the patients and their families are attended to in a calm, gracious setting that is also equipped with the very latest in technology, in order to deliver the highest-quality medical care for vulnerable patients.

In 2004 Stamford Hospital received the Codman Award from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and Organizations, based on the intensive glucose management program instituted in the Critical Care Unit that resulted in a 29% reduction in mortality of patients admitted to the unit.

This prestigious award is given to one hospital in the country each year. In 2002 the Intensive Care Unit received recognition by the National Coalition of Health Care as one of eleven "best practices" in the nation.