What is a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH)

Advanced Specialty Hospitals Long Term Acute Care Hospitals (LTACH- pronounced L-tack) fill an important role in the continuum of patient care and address the needs of a small, but growing, patient population who cannot be effectively treated in the conventional healthcare setting.

Patients are referred to the an LTAC Hospital for the continuation of acute medical care because the severity and complexity of their condition precludes them from being accepted into a rehabilitation hospital or a skilled nursing facility.

From elderly persons suffering from pre-existing conditions that complicate their course of treatment to technology-dependent individuals requiring ongoing intensive nursing care, every patient at our LTAC Hospitals are treated with dignity, respect and compassion.

Our specialized treatment programs include treating the whole person through a well-planned aggressive integrated program of medical and therapeutic care.

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PROVIDING SPECIALTY CARE PROGRAMS
Our specialized treatment programs include treating the whole person through a well-planned aggressive integrated program of medical and therapeutic care. Our programs include:

•	The Pulmonary/Ventilator Program: This provides patients with respiratory failure the opportunity to be successfully weaned from ventilator dependence and achieve their highest functioning level. Because of the continuity of care over an extended period of time, many of our patients can return home breathing on their own.
•	Medically Complex Program: Patients receive integrated treatment for more than one condition, including life-support services that can include telemetry, potential nutritional support, cardiac and respiratory monitoring, and dialysis.
•	Complex Wound Program Patients with pressure ulcers, serious wound complications or who are recovering from extensive surgery receive specialized treatment through this program.
•	Low Tolerance Rehabilitation Program This program offers physical and occupational therapy, and speech language pathology geared to patients who are unable to participate in more than three hours of therapy a day.

Long Term Acute Care