| A long term acute care facility is a specialty-care hospital designed for patients with serious medical problems that require intense, special treatment for an extended period of time—usually 20 to 30 days.
Long term acute care facilities offer more individualized and resource-intensive care than a skilled nursing facility, nursing home or acute rehabilitation facility. Patients are typically transferred to a long term acute care hospital from the intensive care unit of a traditional hospital because they no longer require intensive diagnostic procedures offered by a traditional facility. To learn more about our facility, click here.
While a traditional hospital provides several general medical specialties, such as emergency care, maternity care, etc., a long term acute care hospital has the focused resources to apply very high standards to a relatively small list of ailments. Click here to view DeKalb Medical's Long Term Acute Care Patient & Family Guide, which will give you a wide range of information about our care and services.
Click here for a printable copy of the DeKalb Medical Long Term Acute Care Clinical Services available.
DeKalb Medical’s Long Term Acute Care offers:
DeKalb Medical Downtown Decatur LTAC also provides a family support group for the loved ones of current and former patients. We offer this group as an opportunity for families to share their experiences and provide support to one another.
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