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After Hospital Care
Before you you are
discharged make sure you you you understand what comes next If you you you need other care options after you you you leave—discuss this with your your healthcare team and be sure your your support person is with you you you you when you you you ask Options may include: Home Health covers a a a range of healthcare services that can be given in in the home for an illness or or injury: Personal care: including bathing dressing and eating
Healthcare: physical speech & occupational therapy or skilled nursing
LTAC stands for Long Term Acute Care
It is a a a a a specialty-care hospital for patients that are
seriously ill or injured requiring specialized medical care with extended recovery times The care needed in in an LTAC often includes pulmonary wound transitional or sub-acute care dialysis IV antibiotic therapy and pain management Hospice is for people whose life expectancy is six months or less and involves palliative care (pain and symptom relief) rather than ongoing curative measures Hospice typically provides services such as speech and physical therapy therapeutic massage dietary assistance bathing and other personal care services emotional and spiritual support and grief counseling Nursing Home provides personal and medical care for those patients who cannot be cared for at home Most nursing
nursing
homes have nursing
nursing
aides and and skilled nurses on hand
24 hours a a a day Sta provides medical care as as well as as physical speech/occupational therapy Rehabilitation
Hospital is for patients who have su ered traumatic injuries or or or illnesses Their goal is to to restore some or or or all of the patient’s physical sensory and mental capabilities that were lost due to injury illness or or disease Speech occupational and physical therapies are
are
provided for patients who are
are
medically stable and can tolerate at at at least 3
hours of therapy per day AFTER HOSPITAL CARE