Kindred understands that when people are discharged from a traditional hospital they often need continued hospital care to recover completely.

Kindred Hospitals provide high-intensity medical care to patients who need extended hospital stays. Our patients often have serious medical conditions, often many at the same time, requiring a coordinated, specialized approach, directed by physicians to meet their medical needs.

Imagine that a patient admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is no longer in a life-threatening condition, but has no alternative care settings available to him/her. Kindred Hospitals specialize in meeting the needs of medically complex patients. Each Kindred hospital accepts long-term acute and chronic cases transferred directly from referring hospitals’ ICUs and critical care units. All patients benefit from a focused and aggressive ICU approach. Benefits for these services are usually reimbursed under general acute care hospital coverage.

Kindred can accept patients who are on TPN, antibiotics, ventilators or dialysis, as well as those needing treatment for stage III and IV decubitus ulcers and MRSA. The benefits of a timely transfer improve the patient’s and family’s psychosocial future, and it also maximizes the use of critical care beds and medical personnel.

Since 1986, Kindred Healthcare has built a reputation as the premier provider of respiratory services for ventilator patients and in helping patients become independent of mechanical ventilation.

Patients referred to Kindred typically require one or more of the following programs:

• Pulmonary - specialized care for patients with acute or chronic respiratory disorders
• Medically Complex Care - patients requiring intensive therapies with 24-hour nursing care and daily physician management
• Comprehensive Wound Care - inpatient wound care program designed for patients requiring extensive wound care interventions
• Transitional Rehabilitation - developed for patients who because of their medical conditions are unable to tolerate or participate in three hours of therapy a day
• Occupational Therapy - prepares the patient to return home by practicing activities of daily living

“The Kindred approach is time-tested. We strive to offer those patients who are critically ill and not responding to the more traditional general hospital approach our years of expertise and superior outcomes with the best care and treatment from all our experienced caregivers,” says Dr. Sean Muldoon, chief medical officer for Kindred Healthcare’s Hospital Division.