After more than two weeks of being closed, Island Health is working to find enough staff to reopen the West Coast General’s ICU “as soon as possible”. The three-bed intensive care unit has been closed since Nov. 20, when leading physicians at the hospital determined that shutting down the ICU was necessary to ensure safe care for patients at the medical facility in Port Alberni. Since then, those who need the life-support of an ICU have been relocated by ground or air to another hospital once they are stabilized at West Coast General.