Medical, Cardiac & Wound

Gaylord Specialty Healthcare provides hospital-level medical care for patients recovering from serious medical conditions, cardiac events, and complex wounds. Its hospitalist-led team provides daily medical management, specialized nursing support, advanced wound care, and rehabilitation services to help patients continue recovering and transition safely from the acute care hospital to home.

Gaylord provides care for patients with multiple diseases or complex medical conditions, including lung disease, cancer, organ failure, infectious diseases, and wound care needs. Gaylord also cares for some patients who arrive on a ventilator because of illness or injury and require ventilator weaning.

Gaylord provides specialized cardiac care for patients with conditions including cardiomyopathies, active arrhythmias, congestive heart failure, pulmonary edema, and post-acute myocardial infarction. Gaylord also cares for patients recovering from cardiac surgery, including bypass and valve replacement surgery, transplants, and LVAD procedures. Cardiac care is led by a board-certified critical care physician working closely with consulting cardiologists and referring physicians.

Gaylord provides interdisciplinary wound care for non-healing and slow-to-heal wounds, with treatment focused on managing existing wounds and preventing new skin breakdown. Depending on the patient's needs, wound care may include negative pressure wound therapy, bedside surgical debridement, pulsatile lavage, pain management, nutritional counseling, seating surface evaluation, and specialized mattress support surfaces.

A long-term acute care hospital provides hospital-level care for patients who continue to need daily physician-directed care after they no longer require the intensive diagnostic services of a short-term acute care hospital. Gaylord Hospital is a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital specializing in complex medical care and rehabilitation. The average inpatient stay is approximately 25 days, although the length of stay varies based on each patient's needs.

Gaylord's Medically Complex Program may be appropriate for patients with multiple system failures, ventilator dependence when weaning may be possible, intensive wound care needs, or medical instability that prevents transfer to a skilled nursing facility. The program may also be appropriate for patients whose rehabilitation is affected by acute medical issues or who continue to require a high level of care after an acute hospitalization.

Gaylord specializes in caring for patients who continue to need hospital-level, physician-directed care after an acute hospitalization. Unlike a short-term acute care hospital, which focuses on acute treatment and intensive diagnostic services, Gaylord combines complex medical care with rehabilitation to help patients continue healing and work toward greater function and independence.

Rehabilitation is incorporated into care while patients continue receiving hospital-level medical treatment. Gaylord's goal is to help patients reach their highest possible level of function and independence. Physical therapy is introduced within days of admission, and patients may also receive physical, occupational, and speech therapy based on their individual needs.

Gaylord patients receive care from a multidisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, therapists, dietitians, and case managers. Physicians on the medical staff are board certified in specialties including critical care medicine, internal medicine, pulmonology, and physical medicine and rehabilitation. Patients also have round-the-clock access to physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other members of their treatment team.