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Trinity Health - Saint Joseph Mercy Health System Ann Arbor
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Hospital / Clinic Overview
Saint Joseph Mercy Health System
Ann Arbor, Michigan (founded 1991)
Saint Joseph Mercy Health System is a healthcare network located in Michigan that serves Washtenaw, Livingston, Jackson, Lenawee, Monroe, western Wayne, and southwestern Oakland counties. It includes St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Saint Joseph Mercy Saline Hospital, and Saint Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital. It also has outpatient centers, clinics, and physician practices throughout the service area. Major clinical services include oncology, cardiovascular, orthopedics and neuroscience, emergency medicine, women and children's health, senior health, and a comprehensive array of surgical services. Most recently, Saint Joseph Mercy Health System has been recognized nationally as one of the few health systems in the United States with a computerized order entry system, a key component in the effort to improve patient care and drastically reduce medication errors.
Saint Joseph Mercy Health System has come together to leverage the combined talent and resources of seven hospitals, five outpatient health centers, five urgent care facilities and over 25 specialty centers to create a regional health care system that spans five counties in southeastern Michigan and includes a team of nearly 14,000 nurses and staff, and 2,700 physicians.v
St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor is a 537-bed hospital and regional tertiary care academic facility situated on 340 acres in Washtenaw County, and provides specialty services to patients throughout the system.v
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Location
5301 McAuley Drive
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
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Nursing Units
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East Tower -- 1 East – Inpatient Psychiatric Services |
Unit DescriptionA locked and secured 24-bed unit, 24-hour psychiatric inpatient service. Voluntary and involuntary patients are accepted. Patient population is 18-years through older adult.
Services to patients that meet criteria for:
· The presence of life threatening and/or severely incapacitating symptoms and
· Potential of harm to self or others is considered serious
Patients are admitted through Psychiatric Access department in the Emergency Department at SJMHS. In some cases face-to-face assessments will be required and in other cases transfers or direct admissions from other locations may occur.
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East Tower -- 2 East - Cardiothoracic and Vascular Progressive Care Unit |
Unit Description2 East is a 24-bed unit. All rooms are private and offer cardiac monitoring capability. The unit provides services to adult cardiac, thoracic and vascular patients. Patients on the unit require close and frequent assessment and skillful, timely clinical interventions to achieve treatment goals. Over 80% of the patients admitted to the unit are admitted for cardiac, thoracic or vascular surgery. Other patient diagnoses include general surgery, trauma, interventional cardiology, CHF, ICD, pacemaker, acute MI, and arrhythmias.
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East Tower -- 2 East – SICU |
Unit DescriptionThe Surgical Intensive Care Unit is a 20 bed unit providing excellent and compassionate care to a wide range of patient populations. Currently we have 5 SICU beds in the new state of the art SICU 2 East tower and 15 beds in the current updated SICU 2400.
Patients admitted to the SICU require intensive care monitoring including those patients with hemodynamic instability, compromised respiratory status and frequent neurological monitoring during the post-operative period of hospitalization. The population of patients includes cardiothoracic surgery, trauma, neurosurgery, vascular and general surgeries.
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East Tower -- 3 East – Medicine/Surgery |
Unit Description3 East is a 20-bed unit. The unit is open and operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The 3 East Unit serves adult patients with gynecology, gyn-oncology, breast, ENT, plastic surgery, ophthalmology, dental, and medical conditions.
This unit specializes in the management of the medical patient and postoperative care of our unit specialties. Patients are encouraged to fully participate in their care, including pain management. Self care and patient education is emphasized from pre-operative through discharge of the patient from the hospital.
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East Tower -- 3 East – Pediatrics |
Unit DescriptionThe pediatric unit is a 12 bed monitored unit. It consists of all private rooms with bathrooms and showers. We have a treatment room for pediatric procedures, a family lounge including internet access, and a playroom for our patients and their families. The unit is open and operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
The Pediatric/Adolescent nursing staff provide supportive, caring and nonjudgmental nursing care to children and their families. Services provided include physical care, emotional support, information and education, meeting safety needs, confidential treatment, referral and discharge planning needs; with attention given to the developmental needs of the individual child.
The patient population includes children from 1 day to 18 years old needing secondary level medical and surgical care interventions. Our most common diagnoses are asthma/bronchiolitis, pneumonia, and gastroenteritis.
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East Tower -- 4 East – Rehabilitation |
Unit DescriptionRehab is a 35-bed unit. It consists of two long halls, each connected to a central desk. The patient care rooms and bathrooms are private. There are three (3) semi-private rooms and a treatment room.
The Rehab Unit is designed for patients age 16 and above with physical and cognitive impairments. The goal of rehabilitation nursing is to assist individuals with disabilities or chronic illness to reach and maintain maximum function.
The most commonly treated patients are those recovering from traumatic brain injury, cerebral vascular accident, orthopedic surgery or spinal cord trauma and debilitated medical patients who need a well coordinated conditioning program.
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East Tower -- 5 East - Ortho |
Unit DescriptionFast pace, challenging, and exciting describes our 32 bed Med/Surg Unit. The population on this floor includes patients who have a total joint replacement, fractured hips and traumatic/general orthopedic diagnosis. We also have overflow of medicine patients when our surgery census decreases.
The unit is equipped with 4-6 centrally monitored telemetry monitors for our surgical patients. 5 East nurses excel in pain management. Epidurals and patient controlled analgesic pumps are most frequent methods of pain controlled used.
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East Tower -- 6 East – Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) |
Unit Description6-East is a Cardiology unit, which consists of 25 Intermediate Care beds and 7 Intensive Care beds. The unit typically takes the critically ill cardiac patients, which would include patients having an ST elevation Myocardial Infarction, cardiogenic shock; post cardiac arrest requiring mechanical ventilation or therapeutic hypothermia. They also take patients who require specialized equipment such as IABP or a Swan Ganz catheter, and patients who are hemodynamically unstable and require IV pressors. The CICU can also take the overflow patients from the Medical Intensive Care Unit.
The Intermediate portion of 6 East consists of 25 monitored beds. (The Central Monitoring Unit does 24/7 observation of the heart monitors, in addition to the unit staff being able to see their monitors.) The patient population typically consists of patients who have Acute Coronary Syndrome, (ACS), non ST elevation MI, CHF, arrhythmias, patients requiring stents or angioplasties or pacemaker insertion or revision, or patients who are ready to transfer out of the CICU.
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East Tower -- 7 East - Cardiac Medicine Progressive Care and Heart Failure Unit |
Unit Description7 East is a 32-bed unit with cardiac monitoring capability. Services are provided to older adolescent, adult, and older adult cardiac patients, acute and chronic heart failure patients, as well as medical patients who require cardiac monitoring. Patients on the unit require close and frequent assessment and skillful and timely clinical interventions to achieve their treatment goals. This Heart Hospital unit provides services to patient populations with Congestive Heart Failure, Acute Coronary Syndrome, Acute MI, Cardiac Arrhythmias, and cardiac interventions such as angioplasty, stent, pacemaker or ICD placement. Staff are trained to remove arterial sheaths post intervention, as well as report and manage vascular complications.
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East Tower -- 8 East-Neurosurgery |
Unit Description8 East is a 32-bed unit. Services are provided to older adolescent, adult, and older adult neurosurgery, stroke and urology surgery patients.
The unit is equipped with 8centrally monitored telemetry monitors for our stroke patients. Patients in the unit require strong assessment skills and knowledge of medical conditions to achieve treatment goals.
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East Tower -- 9 East – Medicine Progressive Care Unit (PCU) |
Unit DescriptionThe 9 East Unit provides services to adults with acute and chronic diagnoses. Patients on the unit require close and frequent assessment, and skillful, timely clinical interventions to achieve their treatment goals. Pulmonary disease, renal disease, diabetes, chemical dependency, complex family and/or psychosocial issues, and multi-system organ diseases are commonly seen. The unit is fully operational 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Our goal is to provide competent, compassionate care to patients and their families that will assist them to achieve the highest level of functioning or to provide compassionate comfort care to those who are nearing life’s end.
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East Tower -- 10 East – Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) |
Unit DescriptionIs a 16-bed unit that is open continuously twenty-four hours a day. Services are provided to critically ill adult patients with a minimum age of 16 years of age. Patients in the unit require close and frequent assessment, skillful and timely clinical interventions and sophisticated technical support to achieve aggressive treatment goals. The majority of patients within the unit have a pulmonary diagnosis. Other common diagnoses are gastrointestinal bleeding, sepsis, neurological events and diabetic ketoacidosis.
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East Tower -- 10 East - Medical Progressive Care Unit |
Unit DescriptionThe 10 East Medical Progressive Care Unit is a 16-bed unit that is open continuously twenty-four hours a day. Services are provided to ill adult patients with a minimum age of 16 years of age. Patients in the unit require strong assessment skills and knowledge of medical conditions to achieve treatment goals. Common diagnoses include respiratory distress, gastrointestinal bleeding, sepsis, and diabetic ketoacidosis. Many of the patients on the unit transfer out of the adjacent MICU, while others may transfer from other units to obtain the higher level of care.
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East Tower -- 11 East – Oncology |
Unit Description11 East is a 32-bed unit. All rooms are private. The unit is fully operational 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. The unit provides services to adults with hematologic and oncologic diagnosis and to a wide range of general medical diagnosis. Services also include palliative care and hospice for all adult diagnosis. Patients on the unit require close and frequent assessment, and skillful, timely clinical interventions to achieve their treatment goals. Solid tumors, hematological malignancies, pain control, terminal illness, diabetes, chemical dependency, complex family and/or psychosocial issues, and multi-system organ diseases are commonly seen. Our goal is to provide high quality, competent, compassionate care to patients and their families to assist them to achieve the highest level of functioning or to provide compassionate comfort care to those who are nearing life’s end.
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Legacy Tower -- 2000 Surgery PCU |
Unit Description2000 is a 45-bed unit. All beds have cardiac monitoring capability. This unit provides care of adult post operative; general and intermediate care patients. 2000 services older adolescent and adult patients. Scope of care is primarily major abdominal surgery and trauma. In addition, 2000 services a small population of surgery patients requiring intermediate level care. The intermediate type patients require close and frequent assessment and skillful, timely clinical interventions to achieve treatment goals. In addition, 2000 accommodates patients admitted with medical diagnoses.
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Legacy Tower -- 3000 Mother/Baby |
Unit DescriptionThe Mother-Baby unit is a 36 adult bed/42 nursery bed unit. Our population includes the postpartum couplet (vaginal and cesaerean sections) and post partum readmissions. The adolescent/adult population may have concomitant conditions such as hypertension and diabetes while infants may be preterm, require antibiotic administration, car seat testing and more. Non separation of mother and baby is the desired/preferred mode of care and strongly supported by nursing and medical staffs. The average length of stay is 1-4 days depending on method of delivery. The nurse patient ratio is 1 RN to 4-5 couplets (8-10 patients) with support from Patient Care Technicians. Nurses rotate shifts and there are a combination of 8 and 12-hour shifts.
Relationship Centered Care, a focus on family, and patient teaching are central to the care provided. Lactation consultants, social workers, OB residents, unit clerks, community physicians, midwives and pediatric nurse practitioners round out the interdisciplinary team. Nursing care can be fast paced so a sense of organization is important.
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Legacy Tower -- 3200 Labor and Delivery |
Unit DescriptionOur department is a 24-hour inpatient unit consisting of 12 Labor-Delivery-Recovery suites, 4 Perinatal suites, 6 Antepartum suites, 3 Operating suites, a 4 bed recovery room and a 7 station triage area. Services provided include: Inpatient and outpatient low and high-risk perinatal care, prenatal testing and treatment, antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum care, transitional and normal newborn care and pregnancy loss services.
We care for our patients using a Relationship Centered Care Delivery Model (RCC).
RCC is a team approach to improve the experience and satisfaction of our patients by providing coordinated care with the physicians, nurses, interdisciplinary team members, the patient and the family. We discuss and work together toward mutual goals and desired outcomes
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Legacy Tower -- 3600 NICU |
Unit DescriptionThe Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) staff provides supportive, caring and nonjudgmental nursing care to compromised neonates needing medical interventions.
The NICU is a 24-hour, Level III nursery providing care to ill neonates within a strong family centered care model. Family involvement is key. Stabilization, resuscitation and post birth care is done in a state of the art NICU. The most common diagnoses are rule out sepsis, respiratory distress and prematurity. 3600 has 15 intensive care beds and 15 special care beds.
Services the NICU nurses provide include physical care of the ill neonate, emotional support and comfort needs of families, family information and education, attention to safety needs of the infant and their family, providing confidential treatment that respects infant and family privacy, providing referral and discharge planning needs. Care is given with attention to meeting the developmental needs of the individual neonate. Other services provided by NICU nursing staff include attendance and stabilization of neonates at high risk and certain cesarean deliveries.
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Legacy Tower -- Hemodialysis |
Unit DescriptionThe Hemodialysis Unit is a seven-station unit with all stations surrounding a central nursing station. Outside of the main treatment area is a waiting area for outpatients and visitors. The unit is routinely open from 0600-1730 Monday through Saturday. Additional services are available at any time via the on call nurse.
Patients include those in acute renal failure who are routinely inpatients experiencing a number of other health issues. Many of these patients are expected to regain their renal function and not require on-going dialysis support. We also treat patients with chronic renal failure who have progressed to requiring dialysis. In addition we provide services to chronic dialysis patients who are awaiting placement in a dialysis facility or who cannot transfer to a chronic facility. Any patients who are under 18 years of age are referred to another facility for treatment.
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