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Tommi · 09-14-2011, 07:09 AM

Check out hospitals that have Sub-acute facilities orn Skilled Nursing Centers that have sub-acute in your area. My friend Milana has been in sub-acute care due to esophageal cancer and complications due to the feeding tube in her stomach. She has medicare and applied for state medical.
She is ambulatory, and goes now is able to go out to her Doc's office for chemotherapy, and for PET Scans , etc. She went into the hospital to have the feeding tube put in June 15, 2010 and went to ICU because of compliactions, and has been in Buena Park Nursing Center sub acute-care unit since Sept 2010~~for a year, and in sub-acute for a year. Doc's said she has 3 mos to live. She is now back to being on the sub-acute patio everyday, in ths sunshine, pushing her wheelchair in front of her , with her O2 tank hanging on the side, and her favorite magazines. She meets the other patients out there and they play cards. With Respiratory and a nurse sitting by.

She does Wi Bowling everday, and crafts 3 times a weeek, bingo every morning. She is still sick from all she has gone through, but she has a lovely community of friends there, and doctors, RN's and LVN's and the best NA's I have ever seen. It took some looking until we found a place that would take her, and was clean, and had all she would need. Best regards, Tommi

Check with your state health dept for a list of approved places, or, in the state she lives in, and check them out physically and on the net/reviews.

It is a tough time for all, but if there is a will to live, like Milana , it is what they can do.

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What is skilled nursing sub acute rehab care?

A. Sub acute care is comprehensive inpatient care designed for someone who has an acute illness, injury, or exacerbation of a disease process. It is goal oriented treatment. Sub acute care is generally more intensive than traditional nursing facility care and less than acute care it requires treatment plan for a limited time period (several days to several months), until the condition is stabilized or a predetermined treatment course is completed.

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