Medically Complex Conditions
If you are living with a medically complex condition, the doctors, nurses and staff at St. Elias Specialty Hospital provide the most advanced care available. Our team stays by your side, offering constant nursing supervision and daily doctor visits.
Medically complex patients may have one or more serious conditions. Our team takes the time to understand your conditions and your goals for care. We are highly skilled at making a diagnosis so you can get the treatments you need.
Many of our patients have one or more of the following conditions:
- Cardiac/cardiovascular diseases
- COPD
- Critical illness-related weakness
- Difficulty eating or swallowing
- Gastrointestinal diseases
- Multiple traumas
- Multi-system failure
- Neurological diseases
- Neuromuscular disorders
- Post-op complications including infection, stroke or bleeding
- Pressure wounds
- Pulmonary disease
- Renal disease
- Renal failure
- Respiratory failure
When you come to St. Elias Specialty Hospital, we work with you and your family to create a treatment plan that’s exactly right for you. Depending on your specific conditions, your treatments may include one or more of the following:
- Antibiotic therapy
- Intensive wound therapy
- Nutritional services
- Rehabilitation therapy
- Telemetry monitoring
- Tracheostomy weaning
- Ventilator
Your team of specialists may include:
- Cardiologists
- General surgeons
- Infectious disease specialists
- Nephrologists
- Orthopedists
- Podiatrists
- Pulmonologists
- Urologists