Mayo Clinic Health System to Expand Progressive Care Unit at Austin Facility

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AUSTIN, Minn. — Over several months, Mayo Clinic Health System in Austin will expand its hospital's progressive care unit's capacity from three beds to nine. The expansion, announced Monday, March 9, involves converting the Austin hospital's four intensive care unit, or ICU, beds into PCU beds. The facility will add another two PCU beds, bringing the total number of new PCU beds to six. The change comes amid increased PCU use, Mayo Clinic said i…

Mayo Clinic Health System to expand progressive care unit at Austin facility

To facilitate this growth, four hospital beds from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) will be reallocated to the PCU, and two new beds will be added.