Portsmouth Regional Hospital recently opened its expanded Intensive Care Unit and a new Cardiac Surgical Stepdown Unit, enhancing patient care, and providing a better patient experience and more resources to care for the critical health needs of the New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts Seacoast regions, the New Hampshire Union Leader reports.
The ICU expansion includes six additional beds, bringing the unit’s total to 23. The Portsmouth Regional Hospital ICU is a vital service for the region and the units’ care teams specialize in open heart surgery, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), comprehensive stroke, inclusive of clot retrieval and aneurysm coiling, neurosurgery, and trauma. PRH is the only hospital in the Greater Seacoast Region to offer all of these comprehensive service lines.
The new 15-bed Cardiac Surgical Stepdown Unit will focus on treating patients recovering from open heart surgery, as well as other complicated cardiac procedures. Read more.
