Healthcare Headlines Blog
July 31, 2024
By Dr. Dean French
Kindred Hospitals provide specialized long-term acute care and rehabilitation for medically complex patients. With physician-led, interdisciplinary care and disease-specific certifications from The Joint Commission, we provide seriously ill or injured patients with the high-quality acute care they need, for the time they need it.
Learn more about the conditions that often lead to a transfer to Kindred Hospital.
Complex respiratory conditions that may require ventilator weaning, including but not limited to:
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Acute respiratory failure
- Airway burns
- Aspiration pneumonia
- Chronic ventilation with increased reliance on support
- Complicated pulmonary infections
- COPD/emphysema
- COVID
- Failed weaning attempts at acute care setting
- Interstitial lung disease/pulmonary fibrosis
- Post-COVID conditions
Complex wound/skin conditions, including but not limited to:
- Abscess with drainage
- Amputation wounds
- Burns or skin condition 15% or more of BSA
- Decubitus ulcers
- Fournier’s gangrene
- Multiple wounds requiring complex wound care that precludes patient from moving to lower level of care
- Necrotic wounds requiring sharp debridement
- Necrotizing fasciitis
- Neuropathic and diabetic ulcers
- Post-operative complications
Post-operative wound complications Infectious diseases, including but not limited to:
- Abscess
- AIDS-related infections
- Bacteremia
- Cellulitis
- CNS infection
- Complex pneumonia
- Empyema
- Endocarditis
- Osteomyelitis
- Pyelonephritis
- Sepsis
Medically complex conditions, including but not limited to:
- Cerebral vascular accident
- Unstable diabetes mellitus
- Congestive heart failure
- AIDS/HIV complications
- Metabolic disorders
- Gastrointestinal dysfunction
- Acute kidney failure
- Cancer requiring pre- or post-treatment optimization
- Malnutrition requiring TPN, PPN, NG/OG or DHT HCP
Learn about how Kindred Hospitals can help your medically complex patients recover.
July 31, 2024
By Dr. Dean French