Gulf County Chamber of Commerce E-newsletter

If you are a registered voter in the city of Port St Joe and you did not vote early.

Please don't forget to come by the Fire Station and vote today from 7:00 AM until 7:00pm.

Networking at Noon

 Special Guest Speaker

Representative Steve Southerland

Thursday, June 9^th

Joe Mama’s Pizza

 June  Networking at Noon  Will be on Thursday

Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf now offering Inpatient Rehabilitation

            Port St. Joe, Fla. – Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf has added a new service to benefit patients who need additional rehabilitation after a hospital stay or surgery.
            The hospital has designated nine of its 19 private rooms as “swing beds” – beds that can be utilized as needed for either short-term rehabilitation or for providing traditional acute care to hospital patients.
            For hospitals that meet the requirements to become a swing bed facility, Medicare will pay for extended care services for qualified patients following their discharge as a hospital patient.  At Sacred Heart on the Gulf, that means certain patients can remain in the facility to receive physical, occupational, speech, and respiratory therapy as well as long-term intravenous (IV) therapy.
            An example would be a patient who no longer needs to be in the hospital following major hip or knee surgery, but who needs more physical therapy and assistance before going home. If the patient’s doctor determines he or she would benefit from post-hospital rehabilitation, SHHG can utilize one of its swing beds for that purpose.
            “The ability to use our beds for short-term rehabilitation is one of the steps we are taking to make the best use of our resources,” said hospital President Roger Hall. “The use of our private rooms for this purpose fills a need in the community and we expect it will bring more patients into our facility.”
            In addition to adding the swing-bed rehabilitation service, the hospital is recruiting more physicians and recently opened a new medical office building on the hospital campus with space for primary care physicians, dialysis services, women’s diagnostic and imaging services, and outpatient rehabilitation services.

About Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf

Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf opened in 2010 to serve residents of Gulf, Franklin and Bay counties. The 19-bed facility in Port St. Joe features 24-hour emergency services, inpatient services, surgical services, a full complement of diagnostic and laboratory services, and a helipad to be used by Sacred Heart's regional air ambulance service to provide rapid transport for trauma or critically ill patients. The hospital is operated by Sacred Heart Health System based in Pensacola and a part of Ascension Health, the nation’s largest system of Catholic, not-for-profit healthcare facilities. For more information about Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf, visit online at www.sacredheartonthegulf.org, find us on Facebook or call (850) 229-5600.

The Bridge at Bay St Joe will be hosting a Caregiver Support Group every 2nd Friday of the month at noon. 

The next one will be Friday, June 10 at 12:00 pm here at our facility in the family room. 

Anyone who is a caregiver of anykind is welcome to attend.

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