Inpatient
Welcome to WhidbeyHealth
Ready to Meet the Challenge.
Your front line of defense, our multi-disciplinary team of healthcare professionals are prepared to
'do whatever it takes' to keep you safe and healthy.
Progressive and proactive, battling infections or pandemics, responding to your nutritional needs, providing lifesaving respiratory care or monitoring body wide systems in the intensive care unit after surgery or a life threatening injury or illness - the team at WhidbeyHealth here for you.
INPATIENT SERVICES
INPATIENT CARE AND RECOVERY
Our multi-disciplinary team of dedicated, skilled and compassionate professionals are focused on delivering quality care and exceptional patient experience from your pre-hospital visit through your recovery process.
LEARN MOREINTENSIVE CARE
Providing comprehensive and continuous care for patients with severe or life-threatening illnesses or injuries, which require constant care, close supervision from life support equipment and medication in order to ensure normal bodily functions.
LEARN MORERESPIRATORY CARE
Medical nutrition plays an important role in our interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, providing individualized medical nutrition plans, nutrition therapy and counseling for conditions like Diabetes, heart disease, cancer and weight management.
LEARN MOREMEDICAL NUTRITION
Medical nutrition plays an important role in our interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, providing individualized medical nutrition plans, nutrition therapy and counseling for conditions like Diabetes, heart disease, cancer and weight management.
LEARN MOREDIAGNOSTIC IMAGING
Effective, safe, and high-quality diagnostic imaging, especially X-ray based examinations and ultra-sonography, is crucial for medical decision-making and can reduce unnecessary procedures.
LEARN MORELABORATORY SERVICES
Comprehensive laboratory services to emergency room, hospital patients and outpatients provided by caring and competent team of certified phlebotomist, lab techs and technologists. No appointment needed for walk-in services.
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INPATIENT CARE AND RECOVERY
The Medical/Surgical Department provides care to patients with a variety of multi-system acute and chronic medical conditions, as well as surgical intervention and care.
A multi-disciplinary team is composed of highly skilled, professional, dedicated, and compassionate individuals including registered nurses (RN), licensed practical nurses (LPN), and certified nurse aids (CNA). The Med/Surg team works in close partnership with each patients extended team of doctors/specialist to ensure continuity of care throughout their stay.
INTENSIVE CARE
INTENSIVE CARE
The Intensive Care Unit [ICU] at WhidbeyHealth Medical Center specializes in treating people whose medical conditions require close observation.
A multi-disciplinary team of doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, and critical care specialists collaborate with each patients primary physician, pharmacists, lab techs, diagnostic imaging team and others, as needed to stabilize and support each patients progress back to health.
What does 'Intensive Care' really mean?
WhidbeyHealth's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a highly organized system with dedicated teams who care for critically ill patients, or patients who require enhanced monitoring and support after surgery and before discharge to our inpatient units.
What happens in the ICU?
Admission to the ICU can be daunting to patients and families due to the complicated array of intravenous lines, tubes, wires and monitoring equipment.
ICU patients can be connected to a wide range of machines, the most common being a heart monitor and ventilators which are used when patients can’t breathe for themselves. Many ICU machines beep and make loud noises and alarms to let staff know if a patient’s condition changes.
There are also likely to be several tubes either putting fluid and nutrients into the patient or taking other fluids out.
Patients in the WhidbeyHealth ICU can expect our 'multidisciplinary team' - expert physicians, nurses and technicians who come together to meet each patient's individual needs.
It is understandable that some people find an Intensive Care Unit to be noisy and distressing. Patients and family members are an important member of the team. We encourage you to ask questions and offer information you think useful at any time.
Your Quality Care Team
An ICU team surrounding a patient works in unison, meeting the unique needs of each patient and delivering their specialized medical support.A multi-disciplinary team of doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, and critical care specialists collaborate with each patients primary physician, pharmacists, lab techs, diagnostic imaging team and others, as needed to stabilize and support each patients progress back to health.
Do you have questions?
We encourage patients to ask questions they may have. Family members are welcome to call the nursing team at 360-678-7656, ext. 1010 or 360-321-7656, ext. 1010, any time of the day or night
INTENSIVE CARE NURSES
INTENSIVE CARE NURSES
Nurses who work in Intensive Care have had specialized training to prepare them for their unique roles. They are able to provide urgent patient care using immediately available drugs and emergency equipment.
Each Intensive Care room contains the state-of-the-art equipment needed to monitor each patient’s heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen level and other important information.
When a patient has improved, he or she is transferred to the Medical/Surgical Unit where close monitoring of the patient’s condition will continue.
ON THE TEAM
YOU'RE ON THE TEAM
The doctors and nurses at WhidbeyHealth Medical Center consider you a vital member of your healthcare team.
Please feel free to ask any questions you might have. Ask the nurse on duty or call the medical center at 360-678-7656, ext. 1010 or 360-321-7656, ext. 1010, any time of the day or night.
VISITORS
Current ICU visitor policies are available here.
Unfortunately, flowers are not permitted in the ICU due to risk of infection, but are allowed after patients are transferred to medical/surgical unit or the floor.
RESPIRATORY THERAPY
RESPIRATORY THERAPY
Breathe easier knowing eight certified respiratory therapists are on call around the clock to respond to breathing emergencies. Ever-present WhidbeyHealth respiratory therapists are an integral part of every multidisciplinary medical team—including cardiac, trauma and surgery.
The Covid-19 crisis has turned a spotlight on Respiratory Therapists and their use of ventilators and other critical, lifesaving respiratory therapies. These front-line heroes are on call 24/7, treating patients of all ages. They collaborate with diagnostic imaging and lab teams to identify the cause of each patient’s breathing issues; developing customized treatment plans based on comprehensive, patient driven protocol to aid recovery.
In addition to emergency treatment, therapists work with individual patients throughout the hospital, evaluating their condition and progress. They conduct Pulmonary function tests, provide therapeutic treatments, and one-on-one instruction to prepare patients to manage their own medication and breathing treatments after discharge.
Respiratory therapists also provide pulmonary rehabilitation classes at the WhidbeyHealth Life Center.
Contact us for more information about our respiratory therapy services or to request an evaluation.