Patient Experience

We aim to provide the most optimal setting for rehabilitation and recovery. To achieve this goal, we offer the following amenities:

  • 52 private, luxurious rooms with guest accommodations
  • A unit dedicated to stroke recovery and neurology wellness
  • Specialized acquired brain injury unit with private dining and therapy gym
  • Rooms specifically designed to treat dialysis patients
  • Imaging suite for onsite radiology
  • Adaptive kitchen for re-learning skills of daily living
  • Day rooms designed for patients and their families to gather and support one another
  • Transition apartment where patients can practice their independence before going home
  • Large therapy gyms
  • Outdoor healing and mobility courtyard designed to promote safe community re-entry
  • Outdoor putting green, driving range and basketball court geared towards a more athletic-focused recovery
  • Flat-screen TVs
  • Complimentary Wi-Fi
  • Chapel for spiritual support 

While visiting or staying with us, it is important to note the following guidelines that ensure the comfort of everyone in the hospital:

Cafeteria

Our patients are provided meals approved for their unique health conditions by a team of health care professionals and prepared with each patient’s treatment and recovery in mind. Visitors to the hospital may purchase snacks or hot meals in the cafeteria, located on the ground level.

Cell Phone/Telephone

Patients and visitors may quietly use personal cellular phones inside the hospital so long as the devices do not interfere with patient privacy or the hospital’s healing environment. A telephone is located in each patient’s room.

Flower and Balloon Information

We restrict plants and flowers in patient-care areas where patients are highly immunosuppressed such as those with cancer or who are recovering from a transplant. Latex balloons are not permitted.

Parking

Free parking is provided for patients and visitors in parking lots on the hospital campus. 

Pastoral/Spiritual Care

Our chaplains are available to address emotional and spiritual issues. Their services include individual and group consultations, prayer support and referrals to spiritual resources upon the patient’s discharge by the hospital.

Visiting Hours

Regular visiting hours are generally from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.

Children under 12 should be accompanied by an adult when visiting the hospital.

Visitors may be required to follow certain procedures, depending on the condition of the patient. The nurse staff will provide specific instructions for visiting these patients.

Wi-Fi

Complimentary Wi-Fi is available for all patients and families. Users should note the connection is not encrypted and users assume all responsibility for access.



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