Long-term care provider Kindred Healthcare has announced the opening of a new LTAC hospital in Springfield, Ill.
Kindred Hospital Springfield, a 50-bed freestanding LTAC facility, includes a six-bed high-acuity hospital unit, four-bed dialysis room, rehabilitation gym, five bariatric rooms with ceiling lifts, three negative-pressure isolation rooms and the ability to monitor 16 patients with telemetry equipment.
Kindred now operates six hospitals in Illinois. The Louisville, Ky.-based company’s LTAC hospitals are designed to provide aggressive interdisciplinary care to medically complex patients who require extended recovery time.
“Kindred Hospital Springfield is the seventh hospital we have acquired or opened since last December,” said Paul J. Diaz, Kindred's president and CEO. “We look forward to providing hospital services to the residents of the Springfield area, who can benefit from the continuum of post-acute care services and clinical expertise provided by Kindred Healthcare.”
Kindred Healthcare operates 83 long-term acute-care hospitals and 226 nursing and rehabilitation centers in 40 states. The firm has annual revenues of more than $4.2 billion and also runs Peoplefirst rehabilitation services, which serves 341 non-affiliated facilities.