Kindred Hospital Ocala provide aggressive, specialized care to patients who need extended hospital stays. Our patients have serious medical conditions, often many at the same time, requiring a coordinated, specialized approach, directed by physicians, to meet their daily medical needs.

Our patients are medically complex and often need an array of medical services. We provide care through an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, rehabilitation and respiratory therapists and other support staff. Kindred Hospital Ocala has experience and expertise in a wide variety of care including:

• Pulmonary Care (ventilator management and weaning)
• Complex Wound Care
• Rehabilitation (transitional or subacute care)
• Dialysis
• IV Antibiotic Therapy
• Pain Management

Kindred Hospital Ocala's success in this endeavor is apparent as our employees’ teamwork and dedication translates into high levels of satisfaction – patients and families rate our quality of care at 92%. Kindred Hospital Ocala is also the proud recipient of the Hospital Employee Performance Award Program (HEPAP) Silver Award for fourth quarter, 2010 and first quarter, 2011.

About Our Hospital

Kindred Hospital Ocala is a Medicare-certified acute care hospital that specializes in the care of medically complex, long-term patients. Our hospital is fully accredited by The Joint Commission.

Kindred long-term acute care (LTAC) hospitals offer a full range of services for patients whose medically complex conditions require the specialized care and extended recovery time that conventional short-term acute care hospitals may not be equipped to provide.

Our objective is to provide innovative, integrated care to you or your loved one in the event of a catastrophic illness. We strive to earn our reputation for leadership in quality care each and every day, working to offer the highest level possible of expertise and experience in the name of healing. Our guiding principle is simple – to provide quality through people.

Our Mission

Kindred Hospital Ocala's mission is to promote healing, provide hope, preserve dignity and produce value for each patient, resident, family member, customer, employee and shareholder we serve.

The Value We Provide

Kindred Hospital Ocala provides aggressive, specialized interdisciplinary care to medically complex patients who require extended recovery time.

We provide care through an interdisciplinary team of physicians and clinicians who meet at least weekly to implement individualized treatment plans and protocols to achieve positive clinical outcomes.

We are staffed and equipped to rapidly respond to changes in medical condition.

We provide a caring and respectful hospital environment for all patients and families who require hope, healing and recovery.

What Is an LTAC Hospital?

A long-term acute care hospital is an acute care hospital that specializes in the treatment and rehabilitation of medically complex patients who require an extended stay in a hospital setting.

When a family is trying to decide which post-acute care setting a family member should go to — a nursing home, a long-term acute care hospital, or a rehabilitation center — there is one basic question: Does the patient’s care need to be directed by a physician (in a long-term acute care hospital), by a nurse (in a nursing facility), or by a rehabilitation team (in a rehabilitation hospital)? If a patient needs a doctor every day — one who is available at all times — the patient needs to be in a long-term acute care hospital.

Our patients come from a variety of healthcare settings, but about 95% come from short-term acute care hospitals. Our patients have a large variety of complicated medical conditions, occurring at the same time. Those patients usually end up in a short-term acute care hospital before they come to Kindred Hospital Ocala.

Kindred hospitals have licensure, accreditation and certification to the same standard as any community or university hospital.

An Interdisciplinary Team Approach to Care

The interdisciplinary team is made up of clinicians who have a responsibility in the patient's recovery. It's led by the attending physician and includes nurses, pharmacists, nutritionists, occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, as well as physical therapists. These seven or eight people set goals, mark progress and coordinate the care so the patient’s outcome can be as good as it possibly can be.

Our patients are as sick as patients in short-term acute care hospitals. However, our goals are different: In the short-term acute care hospitals, the goal is to stabilize the patient day-to-day. In the long-term acute care hospitals, the interdisciplinary team's job is to identify the medical conditions, formulate a treatment plan, set reasonable goals and coordinate everyone's interests around meeting those goals. Those goals are not simply to get the patient through the night, but to work toward improvement over the long term.

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