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PICU Grand Opening

Pride and pure joy filled the air during last week's ribbon cutting ceremony in celebration
of our new Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at University Hospital of Brooklyn (UHB). Nearly a decade in the making, the new PICU is a state-of-the-art facility that
provides inpatient pediatric care, is designed for comfort, safety, and privacy, and
offers a family-centered approach to care for our most critically ill infants, children,
and adolescents.
Click here for a look inside Tuesday’s ribbon-cutting celebration.

The new PICU was designed with family at the forefront. Private rooms encourage parent
participation in their child's care, and a separate conference space allows for private family meetings and consultations. Five glass-enclosed private rooms, including a negative pressure room, provide line-of-sight
monitoring by nurses and brings all caregivers closer to the bedside.
The unit's state-of-the-art technology includes a next-generation patient monitoring
system that consolidates and analyzes patient data from multiple ICU devices. The PICU also features the latest telemetry systems, as well as information technology
that brings electronic medical records, imaging studies, and lab, pharmacy, and nutrition
information to the bedside. A pneumatic tube system means staff need not leave the
patient’s room to drop off specimens or retrieve medications.
These are the types of features that will enable our physicians to provide the most
advanced approaches to pediatric critical care interventions, including advanced ventilator
management, use of inhalational gas therapies, dialysis (including continuous renal
replacement therapy), plasmapheresis, continuous video EEG, invasive procedures and
monitoring of bedside bronchoscopy and endoscopy, perioperative critical care, isolation
precautions, and more.
What this all means is that our new PICU will allow us to provide the highest standards
of care for children with critical and complex illnesses right here in the communities
we serve. Additionally, our new PICU will significantly enhance the clinical training
in pediatric critical care we provide our students and residents.

Congratulations to the incredible physicians and staff of University Hospital of Brooklyn on our PICU ribbon-cutting and grand opening. A very special thank you to those whose
dedication to this project made the new PICU a reality, including:
Stephen Wadowski, M.D. Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Stanley Fisher, M.D. Director, Pediatric Inpatient Care
Ramon Gist, M.D. Director, Pediatric Critical Care
Gloria Valencia, M.D. Vice Chair, UHB Pediatric Clinical Services
Daihnia Dunkley, Ph.D., RN Associate Director, Nursing Maternal/Child
Judy Ashur, MSN, RN Assistant Director, Nursing Pediatrics
Patricia Winston, MS, RN Interim Senior Vice President and Managing Director, UHB
William Gerdes Associate Vice President, Ancillary Services
Lori Bruno Director, Strategy and Policy Development
Anthony Piscopo Construction Administration
Alvin Dunaisky Assistant Director, Major Hospital Projects
Milad Botros SMIC
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