Mobile Intensive Care Unit - MICU

Working in close association with ambulance and rescue squads throughout Gloucester County and parts of Salem and Cumberland counties is the UMH Mobile Intensive Care Unit –MICU.

Our highly skilled paramedic teams are called upon by county 9-1-1 dispatchers based upon an established criteria when a serious or life threatening emergency is reported. Because of their advanced education and training in emergency care, our MICU paramedics are able to help assess and stabilize the patient’s condition while administering advanced pre-hospital care on scene or en route to the hospital.

Our specially equipped vehicles and extensively trained emergency medical teams are located throughout the tri-county region in strategic locations to afford improved accessibility and minimum response times.

Linked by electronic means to physicians in the hospital emergency department, the MICU provides highly qualified and compassionate advanced life support to accident and trauma victims and seriously ill patients. During 2004, our units were dispatched approximately 24,000 times and 10,684 patients were assisted and treated by Underwood-Memorial’s Mobile Intensive Care Unit.

For more information, visit the MICU website: www.umh-micu.org