Baptist Memorial Restorative Care Hospital

Details

Name :

Baptist Memorial Restorative Care Hospital

Address  :

6019 Walnut Grove Rd

Town  :

Memphis

State  :

Tennessee

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

38120

Phone  :

901 226 5000

Web URL  :


Description

Baptist Memorial Restorative Care Hospital located within the walls of Baptist Memorial HospitalMemphis is a 30bed longterm acutecare hospital Organizationally and functionally separated from Baptist Memorial HospitalMemphis but affiliated with Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation it is designed specifically for patients who require continued acute care over an extended length of time

Most of its patients are admitted from intensive care and subacute intensive care units and most stay at least four weeks If they become unstable and require intensive care or cardiac monitoring they are readmitted

Before Baptist Memorial Restorative Care Hospital was opened some patients with ongoing problems would cycle repeatedly between the critical care areas and the general care floor They were no longer critically ill but needed a more complex level of care than that available on the general care floor

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