Intensive care in Southern New Hampshire
We work to protect your health and privacy in our state-of-the-art intensive care unit (ICU).
At Parkland Medical Center, you and your loved ones receive advanced intensive care, such as remote monitoring and hypothermia therapy. Our ICU team can stabilize and treat serious illnesses, including sepsis, heart attack and stroke.
Expert advice, available 24/7
Free health-related advice is just a phone call away. Our licensed nurses will help you understand your symptoms, answer health-related questions, and navigate where to seek care.
Free health-related advice is just a phone call away. Our licensed nurses will help you understand your symptoms, answer health-related questions, and navigate where to seek care.
Conditions we treat in our ICU
Our doctors and nurses provide intensive care for a wide variety of conditions, including:
- Abnormal heartbeats
- Acute asthma
- Brain bleeding or traumas
- Comas
- Heart attacks
- High or low blood pressure
- Pulmonary embolisms
- Recovery from surgery
- Sepsis
- Serious infections
- Severe pneumonia
- Strokes
- Tumors
Our ICU treatments and services
We are proud to provide compassionate, around-the-clock care when you experience a serious injury or illness.
ICU hospital services
Our intensive care goes beyond typical inpatient support by offering the following services:
- Advanced technology — We use the latest procedures and equipment that can help shorten hospital stays and promote better outcomes.
- Bedside equipment — Allows invasive and noninvasive cardiopulmonary monitoring
- Hypothermia therapy — Reduces organ damage following cardiac arrest
- Remote monitoring — Helps our caregivers deliver a constant, high-quality responsiveness
- Concentrated care — Our ICU doctors and nurses are specially trained to care for major ailments.
- Safety and security — We closely monitor you 24/7 and only admit approved visitors to your unit.
Compassionate caregivers
Our expert team of healthcare professionals work to deliver the best possible intensive care. Your team may include:
- Clergy
- Nurses
- Nutritionists and dietitians
- Pharmacists
- Physical therapists
- Physicians
- Respiratory therapists
- Social workers
Instructions for ICU visitation and communication
Our visitor guidelines are designed to provide you or your loved one with the best possible setting for recovery when critically ill. Special accommodations may be possible upon request.
Visiting the ICU
We allow 24/7 ICU visitation, with your loved one's agreement and at the discretion of the nursing staff. If you need to visit after 8:00 p.m., enter through the emergency department and you will be escorted to your destination.
Please help us observe quiet hours from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily. Ask the nursing staff about the special circumstances that might allow you to visit during this period.
To help us properly care for your loved one, please:
- Limit visitors to two at a time during regular visiting hours
- Exchange visitors and information in the waiting areas, not at the bedside or in doorways
- Use hand sanitizers on the wall near the door of each room when entering and leaving
- Do not bring flowers, plants or animals into the ICU
- Do not eat or drink in the ICU
- Limit cell phone use, keep conversations in a quiet tone and set phone ringers on vibrate
- Provide direct supervision for children and consider keeping toddlers and infants at home
- Reschedule your visit if you have a fever or symptoms of an infectious illness
- Step out of the ICU when requested while we perform procedures or stabilization
Your loved one should send clothes and valuables, including money and jewelry, home with a trusted family member as we cannot be responsible for these items. In accordance with our guidelines for all visitors, we maintain a strict no weapons policy.
Critical care communications
Please designate one person as the primary contact to receive updates on your loved one’s condition. All phone inquiries to our critical care staff about their condition will be referred to the designated contact person.
This person will receive a privacy code to use with your loved one's name when calling for updates. When we have both their name and privacy code, we’ll transfer the call to the nurse caring for your loved one. Our nurses will also contact this spokesperson if there’s any change in their condition.
Take care of yourself
The best thing you can do for your loved one is to stay healthy. We encourage you to take breaks and go home to rest. If you leave, we can provide you with a beeper to keep you informed. Let our staff know if you’d like to visit with a member of the clergy and we can make arrangements.
We allow 24/7 ICU visitation, with your loved one's agreement and at the discretion of the nursing staff. If you need to visit after 8:00 p.m., enter through the emergency department and you will be escorted to your destination.
Please help us observe quiet hours from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily. Ask the nursing staff about the special circumstances that might allow you to visit during this period.
To help us properly care for your loved one, please:
- Limit visitors to two at a time during regular visiting hours
- Exchange visitors and information in the waiting areas, not at the bedside or in doorways
- Use hand sanitizers on the wall near the door of each room when entering and leaving
- Do not bring flowers, plants or animals into the ICU
- Do not eat or drink in the ICU
- Limit cell phone use, keep conversations in a quiet tone and set phone ringers on vibrate
- Provide direct supervision for children and consider keeping toddlers and infants at home
- Reschedule your visit if you have a fever or symptoms of an infectious illness
- Step out of the ICU when requested while we perform procedures or stabilization
Your loved one should send clothes and valuables, including money and jewelry, home with a trusted family member as we cannot be responsible for these items. In accordance with our guidelines for all visitors, we maintain a strict no weapons policy.
Critical care communications
Please designate one person as the primary contact to receive updates on your loved one’s condition. All phone inquiries to our critical care staff about their condition will be referred to the designated contact person.
This person will receive a privacy code to use with your loved one's name when calling for updates. When we have both their name and privacy code, we’ll transfer the call to the nurse caring for your loved one. Our nurses will also contact this spokesperson if there’s any change in their condition.
Take care of yourself
The best thing you can do for your loved one is to stay healthy. We encourage you to take breaks and go home to rest. If you leave, we can provide you with a beeper to keep you informed. Let our staff know if you’d like to visit with a member of the clergy and we can make arrangements.