About

Located adjacent to the emergency department with 16 beds, the CDU provides an alternative for patients in need of intermediate care who don’t require inpatient hospital admission.

Since the inception of observation medicine in the 1970s, the number of admitted patients under observation status has steadily increased from about 10% to more than 40%. These patients can be effectively managed in an observation unit like our CDU, where we are able to provide expedited, safe and cost-effective care when compared to inpatient admission.

Conditions we most commonly diagnose and treat include the following: 

• Abdominal pain 
• Acute gastroenteritis 
• Acute renal colic 
• Anemia 
• Asthma  
• Atrial fibrillation 
• Chest pain 
• Congestive heart failure 
• Dehydration 
• Pneumonia 
• Pyelonephritis
• Syncope and collapse 

Our team takes a multidisciplinary approach, and we collaborate with nursing staff, social workers, physical therapists and other specialists to achieve the best outcomes in a short period of time — usually less than 23 hours.

Mission

Our mission is to provide timely, comprehensive, cost effective and compassionate care to patients under observation status by optimal resource utilization.