Ascension St. Vincent’s Southside Hospital ready to open a new inpatient rehabilitation unit (Courtesy of the Florida Times-Union) — Ascension St. Vincent’s Southside Hospital soon opens its new 22-bed, inpatient rehabilitation unit for patients needing comprehensive acute rehabilitation services.
The 15,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art unit is expected to open in July, Gary Nevolis, marketing and communications lead for Ascension Florida and Gulf Coast, told the Times-Union.
It will provide comprehensive care for patients who’ve experienced “a major neurological, cardiovascular or orthopedic health event,” hospital officials said in a news release announcing the project.
“A patient hospitalized at Ascension St. Vincent’s after a stroke, for example, can receive acute rehabilitation within our organization instead of transferring to a separate outside facility,” said James Machado, regional president of Ascension St. Vincent’s Southside and Ascension St. Vincent’s St. Johns County.
The new unit will provide patients “with the opportunity to have intensive, comprehensive rehabilitation multiple days per week, in conjunction with other acute hospital services should they be required,” Kristen Gerking, the unit’s director of clinical operations, said in the release.
The unit’s medical staff includes doctors, nurses, occupational and physical therapists who will work closely with the patients to help them “establish the highest level of independence prior to them returning home,” Gerking also said.
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