Long-Term Acute Care
Medically stable but complex patients often need extended medical and nursing care. Patients needing this level of care may be too ill for discharge to a nursing facility, an acute-care rehabilitation hospital or their homes. For such patients, Good Shepherd Penn Partners Specialty Hospital at Rittenhouse provides outstanding long-term acute care tailored to their complex medical needs.
Good Shepherd Penn Partners’ long-term acute care programs involve physician-led interdisciplinary teams of medical professionals, including registered nurses (ICU, med/surgical, and rehabilitation), care managers, clinical dieticians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech/language pathologists, respiratory therapists and psychologists (as needed). Patient-centered or physician-led teams meet each week to discuss patient progress.
All of Good Shepherd Penn Partners’ long-term acute care programs and services conform to the guidelines of the JCAHO Accreditation Manual for hospitals and Federal Medicare Standards.
Diagnoses Treated at the Specialty Hospital:
- Cardiovascular disease
- Medically complex
- Ventilator dependent/Respiratory failure
- Tracheotomies with complications
- Peripheral vascular disease
- Methicillin-resistant staph aureus infections
- Pressure wounds
- Surgical recuperation
- Burns
- Trauma
- Complicated fractures
- Head injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Stroke
- Bariatric care
- Hemodialysis
Treatments offered at the Specialty Hospital:
- Cardiac Monitoring
- Total Parental Nutrition (TPN)
- Long-term IV antibiotics
- Penn Elert eICU (virtual ICU)
Good Shepherd Penn Partners Specialty Hospital at Rittenhouse
1800 Lombard Street
Philadelphia, PA 19146
877-9MY-REHAB (877-969-7342)
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