| Inpatient Services |
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| We are dedicated to providing you
with Medical, Surgical, Pediatric, and Intensive Care services. You
will find our staff courteous, respectful and enthusiastic to serve
your every need. Our highly trained staff will work closely as a
team to provide your health care services. We know that
hospitalization is never an entirely pleasant experience, but we
will do our best to make you as comfortable as possible. We want you
to feel at home. Our nursing staff is committed to excellence and
dedicated to patient satisfaction. Patient satisfaction is evaluated
to continuously improve our bedside service. |
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| Swing Bed |
| Skilled nursing services as well as
rehabilitative services are available through our Swing Bed Program
located within the Medical/Surgical care. Our Case manager and our
Discharge Planner would be happy to discuss these services as
appropriate. |
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| What is Swing Bed? |
| The Swing
Bed program is really just a name for the provision of skilled
services. The skilled level of care services are provided after
patients have had an acute care stay. Some places called a skilled
unit “transitional care” because it is often a place to transition
from the hospital to home. At Memorial Hospital, skilled services
are offered in “swing beds”. Care is provided in the
Medical-Surgical unit and the bed “swings” to a different level of
care. |
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| Services typically offered
to patients at the skilled level are therapies designed to
rehabilitate or re-condition. Often in the elderly, an illness will
leave the patient weakened. By offering therapy with the goal of
returning the patient to their previous level of functioning, we
best serve our customers. |
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| Other services provided in
the Swing Bed setting include medication administered intravenously
(IV) or nutrition provided by tube feeding or IV. Complex wound
care or pain management with IV medications may also require the
skilled setting. |
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| The Swing Bed team works
cooperatively to plan the care and assist with education and
discharge planning. The team discusses services necessary for
post-discharge. Care is coordinated with the patient, the family
and physician to best meet the discharge needs. |
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| The Swing Bed program at
Memorial Hospital is an important service that allows patients to
recover more fully before discharge. |
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The physician's (or radiology or pathology, etc.) services at Memorial Hospital are provided by independent practitioners. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, these practitioners are not employees or agents of Memorial Hospital. |
