• Require acute care services as determined by a physician 
• Are not candidates for treatment at a lower level of care 
• Require physician management of multiple acute complexities 

Patients that meet LTAC admission criteria usually have one or more of the following needs:

• Mechanical ventilation for respiratory failure 
• Stabilization of underlying disease and ventilator weaning
• Pulmonary hygiene 
• Tracheostomy with respiratory insufficiency 
• Exacerbation of COPD 
• Infectious disease with two or more co-morbidities
• Primary cardiac and/or peripheral vascular with co-morbidities
• Wound management requiring interdisciplinary team care
• High level orthopedic conditions 
• Low-tolerance rehabilitation, 1-3 hours daily
• Other primary medically complex condition or illness
• Malnutrition requiring feeding tube or TPN, and speech therapy intervention with swallowing techniques

Long Term Acute Care Services Include:

• Multi-specialty medical and surgical consultations available
• Diagnostic services available
• Respiratory therapy services on-site 24/7
• Continuous cardiac monitoring and critical care available
• Weekly interdisciplinary team review
• Medical Surgical services with nurse staffing the same as short term acute care
• Intensive Care Services with nurse staffing the same as short term acute care
• Interdisciplinary wound management 
• Daily physician rounds