Kindred Healthcare

Long-Term Acute Care

Kindred long-term acute care (LTAC) hospitals provide aggressive, specialized interdisciplinary care to medically complex patients who require extended recovery time. These patients are critically ill and have few care options left; they come to us because they require the aggressive, specialized care and prolonged recovery time that conventional short-term acute care (STAC) hospitals may not be equipped to provide.

Kindred hospitals reduce the cost, trauma and risk of short-term hospital re-admission by being staffed and equipped to rapidly respond to changes in medical condition. Our hospitals have 24-hour physician support and the ancillary services found at an acute care hospital, including laboratory, radiology, operating or procedure rooms, high acuity units or intensive care units and telemetry units. They are licensed as acute care hospitals and are accredited by The Joint Commission.

Inpatient Rehab

Providing rehabilitative services in the most appropriate setting is a key component of Kindred’s overall approach to continuing care. Typically, patients receiving short-term inpatient rehabilitation are recovering from joint surgery or other procedures and need an intensive, supervised rehabilitation regimen. Our multidisciplinary team approach and specialized training of rehab professionals allows us to provide safe and effective care. These services are provided by therapists with RehabCare, a division of Kindred.

Additional rehabilitation services include physical, occupational and speech-language therapies designed to restore patients and residents to the highest possible level of function. Active physician supervision is provided three to four times weekly, and available daily if needed. Generally, rehabilitative services are provided for a minimum of three hours each day.

Skilled Nursing Centers

From intensive short-stay rehab provided in our Transitional Care Units (TCUs) to longer-term restorative care, our nursing centers provide a full range of medical and social services to treat and support each and every one of our patients and residents. Many of our residents go home each year, and for those who are unable to return home, we provide safe, compassionate care in an environment that fosters independence and dignity.

We provide care for patients and residents who require:

• transitional or subacute care (intensive short-term rehab therapy)
• cardio-pulmonary rehabilitation
• wound care
• long-term chronic care
• dementia and Alzheimer's care
• hospice and palliative care

Assisted Living

Our assisted living residences offer a full range of services, from housekeeping to restaurant-quality dining, that help our residents remain independent. Apartments are designed to provide privacy, but with easy access to activities and companionship. These residences also include a 24-hour emergency response system to provide assistance and security.

Services include elegant living areas, a full complement of hospitality services including three restaurant-style meals per day, weekly housekeeping and laundry service, scheduled local transportation, personal care salons, maintenance of building and grounds, wellness programs and social activities.

We also offer a variety of unique, fun recreational events designed to encourage socialization as well as meeting the spiritual needs of each resident.

Outpatient Rehab

The first goal at Kindred hospitals and nursing and rehabilitation centers is to return patients to the highest level of function as possible, as quickly as possible. In some circumstances, continuing to provide rehabilitative support on an outpatient basis is the best option.

RehabCare, Kindred’s rehabilitation services division, includes a comprehensive array of outpatient rehabilitative support, including physical, respiratory, speech and occupational therapies provided by highly trained and certified rehab professionals.

Home Health Care

Many patients that are transitioning to home from a hospital or nursing center still require skilled medical care in limited amounts in the home. Other people are still independent but require assistance in managing declining health. Our home care services are staffed with rehab specialists who are specially trained to make you feel safe and help you regain your independence. Our experienced nurses can assist you with managing your medical condition and medications.

Above all, we help you understand all your choices and help you recover as fully as possible.

Hospice

When medical treatment cannot cure a progressive illness and physicians believe that life expectancy may be six months or less, hospice is a realistic and positive choice.

We embrace the traditional hospice concept of family-oriented care focused on the patient’s comfort and quality of living in life’s final season. The care is designed to meet both emotional and physical needs, and includes:

• treating the patient and loved ones together as one unit
• total coordination of care through our team working with your physician and/or our medical director
• caring for the patient in familiar, comfortable surroundings, whether it is a private residence, nursing center, or assisted living residence symptom relief and pain control including medications for palliative (comfort) care
• providing medical equipment and supplies
• supporting the family and other loved ones through education and counseling, including bereavement care
• respite care
• staff available for support 24 hours a day, seven days a week