Virtual ICU: Benefits for Hospitals
Learn how virtual ICU support can help address critical care resource gaps, improve response time and strengthen your ICU team’s daily workflow.
Virtual ICU
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With OSF OnCall, your teams get 24/7 remote critical care monitoring and real-time support from experienced physicians and nurses who work alongside your clinicians as one coordinated ICU team.
Whether you call it virtual ICU, tele ICU or eICU, the goal is the same: helping your clinicians deliver the right care at the right time through continuous observation, earlier intervention and shared best-practice standards. Together, we focus on evidence-based care, quality outcomes and a five-star patient experience.
27%
Decrease in ICU length of stay
20%
Decrease in average ICU mortality
1.4
Decrease in number of days on a ventilator
Why Hospitals Partner with OSF OnCall
When you’re managing staffing gaps, surges and higher-acuity patients, a virtual ICU partner should make your work easier – not add complexity. OSF OnCall supports your team with a practical, collaborative approach focused on safety, quality and consistent processes.
Clinical Impacts of a Virtual ICU Team
With OSF OnCall, your patients benefit from continuous oversight while your bedside staff gains extra clinical support. The OSF OnCall intensive care team currently monitors 200+ beds, providing dependable ICU monitoring and collaborative guidance that complements your existing workflows.
Remotely monitors vital signs, clinical assessments, medications, lab results, imaging and more
Intervenes quickly with evaluation and treatment should an emergency occur
Collaborates with the bedside care team to determine the ongoing plan of care for the patient
Allows for faster response times and fewer complications
Strengthen ICU Care with Proven Practices
Best Practice Initiatives
- Ventilator-acquired pneumonia prevention
- Ventilator management
- Delirium management and early mobility
- Glycemic control
- Sepsis management, including early detection and intervention
- Organ donation
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) management
Opportunities for Collaboration
- Patient admission, shift change
- Emergency arrest
- Communication orders
- Resident collaboration
- Specimen and medication verification
- Nursing education and mentoring
- Poison control
- Troubleshooting changes in condition
- Organ donation
- Arterial blood gas, vent bundle process and low tidal volume