In March 2007, the GNYHA and United Hospital Fund (UHF) Critical Care Leadership Network developed and administered a standard ICU survey tool to capture a profile of the region’s critical care units over a 24-hour period. The survey was completed by 143 intensive care units, across 69 hospitals and included deidentified data on 1,889 patients. The data gathered from the survey, highlights from which can be viewed here have given the CCLN, which includes ICUs from each of GNYHA’s member hospitals, insight into the areas of the ICU and hospital that need further focus and improvement, including information about resources and planning for surge capacity in emergencies, advance directives, patient throughput, and training and education needs.
Contact Zeynep Sumer at zsumer@gnyha.org or (212) 258-5370 if you have any questions about the survey.