South Georgia Specialty Hospital

We are a Long Term Acute Care Hospital

By serving as an extension of your hospital’s clinical continuum, South Georgia Specialty Hospital can help relieve the gridlock commonly experienced by many tertiary critical care units.  Utilizing a long-term acute care hospital for appropriate patients can help efficient bed management or ICU units so hospitals can accommodate other admissions.

South Georgia Specialty Hospital carefully evaluates each patient referred to be sure that the admission criteria are met. These criteria include:

  • The patient is no longer in a crisis intervention stage of treatment.
  • They have completed initial diagnostic work up.
  • There are no planned major invasive surgical procedures.
  • The patient has a prognosis of an extended stay (25 days or more) in an acute care setting.

OUR APPROACH TO THE BEST IN CLINICAL CARE

We are known for outcomes-oriented management of our patients.  Our team continuously monitors goals, tracks outcomes, and remains abreast of the best clinical practices to incorporate into each program. Our multidisciplinary teams meet weekly to evaluate goals and set new goals intended to challenge each patient to a higher level of recovery.  Families and patients are an integral part of the team and are encouraged to remain actively involved in the patient’s treatment plan. Our team consists of:

  • Board Certified Physicians
  • Acute Care Nurses (ACLS Certified)
  • Respiratory Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Infection Control/Wound Care Nurses
  • Dieticians
  • Pharmacists
  • Occupational, Physical and Speech Therapists

Treatment plans are based on patient needs and each patient is treated as a participating team member throughout all treatment phases.

SOME PATIENTS NEED MORE THAN REGULAR HOSPITAL CARE

What can you do for the patient who needs long-term acute care? South Georgia Specialty Hospital – an acute care hospital – can help.  Our interdisciplinary team of professionals provides a clinical environment treating long-term acute care patients who are too ill for discharge to a nursing home, a rehabilitation hospital, or home.

South Georgia Specialty Hospital provides health care specifically tailored to meet the complex medical needs of acutely ill and fragile patients.

South Georgia Specialty Hospital is the best health care choice for patients with medically complex conditions, pulmonary disorders, neurological illnesses, post trauma, or patients who require ventilator weaning or complex wound care.

South Georgia Specialty Hospital

FAQ

LTAC hospitals are facilities specializing in the treatment of patients with serious medical conditions requiring ongoing care but no longer require intensive care or extensive diagnostic procedures.

  • Short term acute hospital stay ≥ 5 days
  • Failed a lower level of care and required readmission
  • Lower nurse to patient ratio (similar to hospital ICU step-down unit)
  • Daily physician visits

Long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) are facilities that specialize in the treatment of patients with serious medical conditions that require care on an ongoing basis but no longer require intensive care or extensive diagnostic procedures.  These patients are typically discharged from the intensive care units and require more care than they can receive in a rehabilitation center, skilled nursing facility, or at home. 

LTACHs often are housed within the walls of an acute care hospital but function independently.  LTACHs must be licensed independently and have their own governing body. LTACHs may also exist as a stand-alone facility.  They may offer some outpatient services, such as laboratory or radiology procedures.

Under Medicare, the patient must need more than 25 days of hospitalization. The types of patients typically seen in LTACHs include the following:

  • Prolonged ventilator use or weaning
  • Ongoing dialysis for chronic renal failure
  • Intensive respiratory care
  • Multiple IV medications or transfusions
  • Complex wound care/care for burns

Patients admitted to an LTACH must meet either of the following:

  1. Spent at least three (3) midnights in an intensive care unit during the immediately preceding IPPS hospital stay.
  2. Received at least ninety-six (96) hours of respiratory ventilation services during the immediately preceding IPPS hospital stay. 

Every patient upon admission is assigned a DRG based on his or her diagnosis. A patient’s length of stay is based on the DRG. A patient needs to stay at least 5/6 of the DRG length of stay in order to receive full reimbursement. If the patient stays less than this, the LTACH receives partial reimbursement. The GMLAS is the latest a patient can stay. There is no additional payment after this date.

A short stay is any stay that does not meet the 5/6 GMLOS.

Examples:

  • Patient experiences an acute condition that requires urgent treatment or requires more intensive rehabilitation and you then discharge the patient to another facility
  • Patient does not require the level of care provided in an LTACH and you then discharge the patient to another facility
  • Patient discharges to his or her home
  • Patient dies within the first several days of admission to an LTACH
    Patient exhausts benefits during the LTACH stay

Services

Office Address 2000 Palmyra Rd, 3rd Floor, Albany, GA
E-Mail Us contact@southgeorgiaspecialty.com
Contact Us Free 229-789-6120

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