Long-Term Acute Care
The Long-Term Acute Care Unit at the Geriatric Hospital is the only university-based geriatric program of its kind in the state of Georgia. The Long-Term Acute Care Unit is for elderly patients with complex medical cases or a need for ventilator management.
The Long-Term Acute Care Unit is staffed and managed by Emory University School of Medicine staff and an experienced team of geriatric health care specialists. The patients of the Long-Term Acute Care Unit typically have suffered from a stroke, undergone a major surgical procedure, or suffer for serious wounds and/or infections. Many patients in Long Term Acute Care also are dependent on oxygen or ventilator support.
Long-Term Acute Care specializes in treatments including:
- Managing chronic pulmonary conditions
- Ventilator support and weaning
- Complex wound management
- IV antibiotic therapy
- Peritoneal and hemodialysis
- Parenteral hyperalimentation
- Postoperative complications
- Pulmonary rehabilitation
- Fiberoptic bronchoscopy
- Blood product transfusion
- Multidisciplinary patient support
