LTAC stands for long-term acute care. This type of healthcare is becoming a popular and highly effective way to change from medical management in an intensive care unit, or ICU. It is particularly useful when disease, debilitating injury, or chronic condition has continuing in-depth and multi-disciplinary care needs. Let’s look more closely at the benefits of LTAC at Carrus Specialty Hospital.
What Is Long-term Acute Care?
Long-term acute care, or LTAC, addresses the intricate health needs of medically fragile adult patients with critical illnesses, injuries, and conditions, such as MRSA infection, traumatic amputation, and congestive heart failure. These individuals require one on one, 24-hour care from a team of highly qualified and specialized healthcare providers. Also, these patients would greatly benefit from graduating from their lengthy stays in hospital intensive care units.
While a hospital intensive care unit focuses on lifesaving and stabilizing interventions, the long-term acute care facility works toward continued improvement, wellness, and function for patients with severely compromising medical conditions. All care, treatments, and diagnostic assessments are accomplished under one roof in a single state-of-the-art facility.
What Kinds of Services Does LTAC Deliver?
At Carrus Specialty Hospital, our multifaceted long-term acute care team delivers compassionate and targeted care for adults ages 18 and older who need complex therapies and personal care for an extended period of time. Our services include daily physician visits and around-the-clock care by a highly experienced team of nurses, aides, and physician assistants.
We offer and support level III and IV wound care, ventilator care, rehabilitation for amputation and other traumatic injuries, as well as medication management, IV therapy, onsite imaging and lab tests, and more. We strive to serve the whole person as part of our campus community in a 33-bed facility with private rooms and conveniences for family and friends.
In addition, we want each patient to achieve his or her highest level of function and well-being as we deliver onsite:
- Physical and occupational therapy
- Speech therapy
- Nutrition and meal plans by registered dieticians
- NG tube feeds and other methods of delivering nutrition
- Cardiac rehabilitation and conditioning
- Post-operative rehabilitation
- Ventilator care and weaning
- Respiratory therapy for COPD and other debilitating lung conditions
- Renal care for late-stage chronic kidney disease
- Wound management of diabetic ulcers or surgical wounds
- Pain management
- Management of severe infections, such as MRSA or sepsis
- Blood transfusions
- Diabetes management and diabetic wound care
LTAC Near Me at Carrus Specialty Hospital
If you have a loved one in need of long-term acute care for complex medical issues, please contact us for additional information about our beautiful and welcoming LTAC facility. Our care is highly individualized, compassionate, and effective. In fact, it’s an innovative blend of acute care and continuing rehabilitation that increases the quality of life and overall wellness.
Call Carrus Health today at (903) 870-2600. We would love to sit down and answer all your questions about Carrus Specialty Hospital and how it could benefit your loved one.
