Thousands of physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other allied health professionals choose LifeCare Hospitals in which to practice their trade.
LifeCare Hospitals are equipped to care for individuals with critical illnesses or injury including:
- Multiple system failures
- Complex pulmonary diseases (COPD)
- Respiratory failure
- Methicillin-resistant staph auereus
- Vancomycin resistant enterococcus
- Immunosuppressed conditions
- Dysphagia management
- Strokes
- Traumatic brain injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Stage III, IV, and multiple stage II wounds
- Acute or chronic renal disease
- Nutritional impairment
- Circulatory and diabetic ulcers
- Pleural effusions
- Myocardial infarction with deconditioning
- Postoperative coronary artery bypass graft
- CABG with decompensation
- Congestive heart failure
- Non-healing surgical wounds
- Amputation
- Cystic fibrosis
- Complicated fractures
- Joint replacement with multiple medical complications
- Pneumonia
- G.I. disorders (i.e. - Gastritis)
- Hemo and peritoneal dialysis
- Sepsis
- Pre and post-operative organ transplant care
- Cardiomyopathies
- Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
- Lung resection
- Muscular dystrophy
- Diaphragm paralysis
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Neuromuscular/neurovascular disorders and diseases
- Post-surgery with complications
- Multiple infections
- Obesity secondary to disease process
