Select Specialty Hospital – the Villages

Select Specialty Hospital - the Villages is delighted to add to the depth of available comprehensive medical services to the residents of The Villages and the surrounding tri-county communities. We provide comprehensive acute care services including medicine and nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, dialysis, specialized wound care, nutritional support, and all the other modalities found in hospitals across the nation. We are certified by Medicare as a Long-Term Acute Care (LTAC) hospital. We coordinate a medical evaluation, complete insurance verification/pre-certification and arrange transportation with the goal of admission promptly after the admission call. Our admissions department works closely with a patient’s physicians and case managers, as well as the other healthcare providers, to make a patient’s transition to our LTAC hospital a smooth process. We accept Medicare, worker’s compensation and most insurance plans. Promise Hospital of Florida at The Villages specializes 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, or 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 (RCPs) on a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week basis, with diagnostic procedures scheduled as needed. RCPs – 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. 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.