Critical Connections

Success Stories

Three ICUs Share Their Paragon Pilot Experience (April 2008)

Facing the Challenges and Producing Results (February 2008)

Putting the Right Care, Right Now Message Into Action (February 2006)
Critical Connections, Volume 5, Number 1

Full-time Critical Care in the Community ICU: It Can Be Done (June 2005)

Quality Corner: Success in Rhode Island (August 2004)
Critical Connections, Volume 3, Number 4.

Implementing the Multidisciplinary Team Model with an Intensivist: Success in Delaware (April 2004)
Critical Connections, Volume 3, Number 2.

Implementing the Intensivist Model: Success in Connecticut (December 2003)
Critical Connections, Volume 2, Number 6.

Implementing the Intensivist Model: Success in Newport Beach (June 2003)

Critical Connections Volume 2, Number 3.

Implementing the Intensivist Model: Success in Atlanta  (April 2003)

Critical Connections, Volume 2, Number 2.

Implementing the Intensivist Model: A Tale of Two Cities (December 2002)

Critical Connections, Volume 1, Number 5.

Paragon Stories

- Lakeland Regional Medical Center 
- Providence Alaska Medical Center
- Sentara Obici Hospital

Presbyterian Hospital, Charlotte, NC                           Multiprofesional Rounds
The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX                           Spontaneous Breathing Trials
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta                                 Blood Stream Infection Reduction in a Pediatric ICU
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA                Therapeutic Hypothermia


Submit Your Story!

The Society is seeking similar success stories about implementing the multidisciplinary team model by its members. Because implementing the model is often a challenging task, sharing your experience may help other intensivists overcome similar obstacles to the ones you faced. Your experience will also help SCCM highlight the fact that the multidisciplinary model can work in any setting and that the intensivist can work effectively with other healthcare providers.

These stories will be collected and published by SCCM as a resource to its members and other healthcare practitioners. To contribute your story to this project, please contact Melissa Nielsen, Managing Editor, Critical Connections, at (847) 827-7405 or mnielsen@sccm.org.