Sacred Heart Hospital in Port St. Joe has added a new service to help patients who need additional rehabilitation after a hospital stay or surgery.
The hospital has designated nine of its 19 private rooms as “swing beds” that can be utilized as needed for either short-term rehabilitation or for providing traditional acute care to hospital patients.
By becoming a swing bed facility, Sacred Heart can now be reimbursed through Medicare for extended care services for qualified patients to receive physical, occupational, speech, and respiratory therapy as well as long-term intravenous (IV) therapy.
In addition to adding the swing-bed rehabilitation service, the hospital is actively recruiting more physicians.
It 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.
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