Transitional Care Unit

The Transitional Care Unit (TCU) at University Hospital Community Campus is a 20 bed hospital based short-term sub-acute skilled nursing unit. The unit opened in July 2014 and is located on the completely renovated 5E unit on the 推荐最近最火的赌博软件 Community Campus. The TCU admits only Medicare patients directly from an 推荐最近最火的赌博软件 University Hospital acute care unit.

The TCU provides services to inpatients that no longer require acute care, but continue to need specialized medical, nursing and other hospital ancillary services and are not yet ready for discharge. It will be necessary for the patient or family to participate in the care on the TCU and to effectively address the post-discharge needs.

Examples of Medicare patients considered for admission to TCU include:

• Patients with general diagnoses in 整形外科/神经科学/外科手术/Medical requiring short-term, therapies to improve mobility, 自我保健, 诽谤联盟, bladder/bowel management, 沟通, 平衡, 或安全.
• 外科手术 Cases requiring Complex Wound Care/New colostomy patients requiring patient/caregiver education.
• Patients who require IVs, 胃管喂食, daily injections and therapies, sterile dressing changes, nutritional assessments or skilled medical observation.
• Endocrine patients with newly diagnosed diabetes requiring patient/caregiver education.
• Deconditioned Patients requiring Respiratory or 心血管 care.
• Patients with Systemic infections requiring intravenous antibiotics or antifungal agents, PN or intermittent lipid therapy and End stage diseases.

It is expected that patients admitted to the TCU will remain on the unit between five and 21 days. 在他们逗留期间, care will be delivered by a comprehensive interdisciplinary team of Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, 职业, 物理, speech and recreational therapies, 病例管理, 社会工作人员. 除了, staff members from ancillary areas of the hospital (for example, 实验室, 放射学, 食物和营养, 呼吸系统服务, 社会服务, chaplaincy services) also assist patients and their families as appropriate. The team will work under the direction of nursing/hospital administration and also 推荐最近最火的赌博软件's Division Chief of Geriatrics, 沙龙Brangman, MD.

Nurses in the TCU provide focused care to patients who are not ready to be discharged home or to another facility. Our nurses work to coordinate patient care amongst many different disciplines including OT/PT, 饮食, 还有社会工作. All RN's receive a 10- 16 week competency based orientation with an assigned preceptor. Orientation includes both classroom and hands-on learning. 除了, as a Nurses Improving Care of Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) Hospital, the nursing staff will have access to the NICHE on line learning center.