Intensive Care Units across the globe deliver exceptional, life-saving care. ICU’s are incredible. 90% of patients who enter the ICU will go home which is remarkable.

However, Intensive Care Units can be daunting places for patients and their families with up to 75 per cent of ICU patients globally experience anxiety, depression, or other physical, cognitive, or psychological problems. While the quality of care provided and survival rates in Australian ICUs are exceptional, the quality of a patient’s life post-discharge can be suboptimal.

The Solution
We have an opportunity to build a state-of-the-art Monash Health ICU – improving patient outcomes, patient and family experience and staff experience.

This will be a first for an ICU in the state of Victoria.

We are building a modern ICU within the new Monash Medical Centre tower which will be ready to receive patients in 2029.

With your support, we aim to purpose-build up to 10 of these rooms with enhanced features to reduce delirium such as:

1. Enhanced noise reduction – through smart patient monitoring and life support equipment that can divert alarms to central stations – reducing impact at the patient bedside
2. Optimising lighting to provide a more circadian-effective program- syncing with patient biological rhythms
3. Considered technology to optimise communication between patients and families – better connecting patient and families

Please note: final features may change through project design