Transitional Care Unit

Our Transitional Care Unit (TCU) provides a wide range of interdisciplinary rehabilitation services to patients with short term rehabilitation and medical needs. Our TCU, sometimes called a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), is licensed and surveyed every year by the Department of Public Health. Rehab services include: orthopedics, neurology, cardiac, oncology, medical, surgical recovery, IV therapy, wound care and nutritional support.

Our patients benefit from access to a full continuum of services in a setting more appropriately designed to meet their specific rehabilitation needs.

Program Features:
	•	Specialty rehabilitation team which may include attending physician, rehabilitation nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, rehabilitation aides, dietitians, social workers and program managers.
	•	weekly interdisciplinary team meetings; daily rehab team meetings.
	•	daily individual and group therapy services led by licensed therapists.
	•	excellent clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction ratings.
	•	on-campus continuum of services available, including emergency and acute care, hospital diagnostic and laboratory services, pharmacy and respiratory therapy.
	•	access to a variety of leisure activities and use of the Patient/Family Activity Room.

Additional information about Skilled Nursing Facility or Transitional Care Unit guidelines are available from the Massachusetts Extended Care Foundation at www.mecf.org or from www.cms.org.

Our outpatient rehabilitation programs offer aggressive care for patients who have completed their inpatient program or are just beginning the rehab process. Outpatient services are available at the Therapy Centers of Salem, Lynn, Peabody, Marblehead, Middleton and North Andover.