Homecare What to Expect
MedStar Health Home Care provides individualized, physician-prescribed, medical treatment and services to adult patients who need he...
Patient Expectations
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Patient Fall Prevention
Did you know that every year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people fall in the hospital? Up to half of these patient...
Your Care Team
Our goal is to take excellent care of you while you’re in the hospital. To do that, there’s a whole team of people who work together...
Outpatient Observation Status
When you’re staying in the hospital, you’ve either been admitted as an inpatient or you’re an outpatient in observation status. If y...
Mechanical Ventilation
When patients need help breathing, they sometimes receive mechanical ventilation. This means that a tube is inserted into the mouth...
Sounds of the ICU
When you or your loved one is a patient in the intensive care unit, or ICU, it can be a scary time. Patients are in the ICU because...
Introduction to the ICU
Seriously ill patients come to the intensive care unit (ICU) for specialized care that can include intensive monitoring or support,...