At its 46th Annual Congress this January, the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) awarded the Yale-New Haven Hospital Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit (Neuro ICU) team with its Family-Centered Care Innovation Award. SCCM presents the national award annually to an ICU that demonstrates novel, effective methods of providing care to critically ill and injured patients and their families. The Yale Neuro ICU team was recognized both for its implementation of dedicated bedside rounds specifically for patients’ families during afternoons and for distributing care packages to families of dying patients.
Team leader David Y. Hwang, MD, an Assistant Professor in the Division of Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology at the Yale School of Medicine, received the award on January 23, 2017, at the Congress in Hawaii, HI, on behalf of the YNHH Neuro ICU multidisciplinary team. Per Hwang, “We are humbled to receive this recognition and hope to continue to figure out new and effective ways of improving the family experience within our unit.”
We are humbled to receive this recognition and hope to continue to figure out new and effective ways of improving the family experience within our unit.
David Y. Hwang, MD