Cardiopulmonary Program

Our hospitals specialize in comprehensive rehabilitative cardiopulmonary care for adult and geriatric patients with difficulty breathing due to complex and unresolved acute illnesses, as well as multi-organ failure, diseases, complications or severe injury.

Most of our patients in the cardiopulmonary program are transferred from an ICU or general medical and surgical beds in short-term acute care (STAC) hospitals because they are in need of a longer acute hospital recovery period to reach their full recovery potential.

These include patients:
• who are on life support and require ventilator weaning and management,
• with ARDS, COPD, neuromuscular disease, or chronic lung problems, such as asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema, lung fibrosis, pneumonia, and lung cancer,
• who are recovering from a heart attack or accidents.

Upon physician order, our in-patient cardiopulmonary/respiratory therapeutic services are provided by Respiratory Care Practitioners (RCP) on a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week basis, with diagnostic procedures scheduled as needed. RCP's - who include both registered respiratory therapists and certified respiratory therapists - work under the direction of a board certified physician and medical director to deliver quality cardiopulmonary/respiratory care.

Advanced Wound Care Program

We provide a collaborative state-of-the-art skin and wound care management program dedicated to preventing, as well as restoring and maintaining skin integrity for patients suffering from chronic, non-healing wounds.

We utilize both skill and application of wound care to treat compromised skin integrity, and apply knowledge and understanding of wound care in an interdisciplinary manner. We also provide team intervention to promote and hasten the healing process.

Patients admitted to our inpatient wound care program are referred by a physician and have been identified as at risk for compromised skin integrity due to complex medical conditions.

Inpatient Behavioral Health Program

 For those experiencing an acute behavioral health crisis, or for those living with individuals with behavioral health disorders, we emphasize a personalized system of care that includes therapeutic groups and activities, medication management, and education. We teach you and your loved ones coping skills and symptom management to assure functional independence in society.

Our inpatient program focuses on rapid stabilization of the acute crisis and provides 24-hour intensive treatment in a safe, structured and supportive setting. Our interdisciplinary medical team of psychiatrists, licensed nurses, mental health workers, social workers and therapists work closely together to provide a continuum of high quality health care, life enhancement services, and education for family and other caregivers. This includes after-care referral services that link you with appropriate community resources for medications, counseling, peer group sessions, etc.

Under the direction of a psychiatrist, the treatment team provides each patient entering our program with a comprehensive interdisciplinary assessment and an individually tailored plan for treatment. As clinically indicated, this treatment plan may include one or a combination of the following:

• Individual therapy
• Group therapy
• Family therapy
• Medication management
• Educational and skill building activities

Not all Promise hospitals provide the Inpatient Behavioral Health Program.

Services include but are not limited to:

• Cardiac Monitoring
• Hemodynamic Monitoring
• Titrate Pressure Support Medications
• Ventilator Management and Weaning
• 24/7 Respiratory Therapy and Care
• IV Antibiotic Therapy
• Total Parenteral Nutrition - TPN
• Comprehensive Wound Care
• Pain Management
• Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
• Surgical Wound Debridements

*Not all Promise hospitals provide all clinical services and programs. For a list of clinical services and programs offered at the Promise Hospital in your area, click here and select your Promise Location.