Mr. Alves: Healing After an Accident

Mr. Alves, 44, initially admitted to a short-term acute care hospital following a motorcycle accident that left him with a closed head injury, mental status changes and multiple fractures.  His post-op course was complicated by the need for a G-tube and multiple split-thickness skin grafts and positional orthostasis.

Although Mr. Alves was stabilized at the traditional hospital he was unable to recovery completely and required extended high intensity medical care. He was transferred to Kindred Hospital Northeast – Stoughton for continued care on October 12.

Upon admission Mr. Alves was initially dependent for all self-care and non-ambulatory. Kindred’s interdisciplinary evaluated Mr. Alves and began an intensive treatment plan tailored to his complex needs including physical and occupational therapy.

Mr. Alves progressed quickly and was able to once again ambulate more than 300 feet with no assistive device, requiring only intermittent assistance with his self-care routine, managing a regular diet.

Having done remarkably well Mr. Alves was discharged home.

Kindred Hospital Northeast – Stoughton’s success is apparent in stories like this as well as in our quality scores – our patients and families rate our quality of care at 96.8 percent and over 99 percent recommend Kindred.

In 2010 our hospital was honored by the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) with the Association’s Quality Respiratory Care Recognition (QRCR), based on strict safety and quality standards in the provision of respiratory care. We are also the winner of the third quarter, 2010 Hospital Employee Performance Gold Award, given to the hospital with the best overall performance in patient care excellence, customer satisfaction, efficiency and employee satisfaction.