What's New for Patients and Families

Your loved one’s transfer to a transitional care hospital can be an important step toward recovery from a serious illness or accident. The most common hospital setting in America is one that provides short-term acute care for patients with pressing health issues – emergencies or surgeries brought on by illness or an accident. Read More

When you or a loved one become critically ill, undergo surgery or suffer a devastating injury, you will probably be treated at a traditional acute care hospital, which has the resources, personnel and sophisticated medical equipment to treat severe injury or illness, under emergency circumstances. Sometimes, though, people with many medical complexities are unable to recover completely in the short-term acute care setting. When those patients are discharged directly home they often must be hospitalized again due to ensuing complications.... Read More