Fairview Ridges Hospital is committed to taking exceptional care of patients. That’s why our medical staff includes a full complement of critical care specialists and hospitalists who care for patients with complex medical needs around the clock. Critical care doctors, also known as intensivists, treat patients who are critically ill and in an intensive care unit. Such patients have life threatening conditions and may require support of a breathing machine (ventilator) to sustain their breathing, dialysis for acute kidney failure, or intravenous medications to help a failing heart/circulation, to treat abnormal blood pressure or preserved brain function.

We partner with University of Minnesota Physicians (UMP) board-certified critical care doctors who bring advanced training and experience in caring for patients with the following conditions:

• Heart, artery or vein conditions
• Lung and breathing conditions, such as acute respiratory failure,  acute respiratory distress syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma or severe pneumonia
• Severe infections (Sepsis)
• Kidney injury or failure
• Multiple organ failure
• Coma and other neurological conditions
• Life threatening bleeding, liver failure, life threatening intoxication
• Post surgical patients (heart, brain or other high risk surgery)

What is a critical care or intensivist doctor?

Will my primary care doctor work with the critical care doctor and hospitalist?

Meet our critical care doctors.

Contact Information:

Fairview Ridges Hospital
Intensive Care
201 E. Nicollet Blvd
Burnsville, MN 55337