Long Term Acute Care Hospitals have established themselves by identifying and serving a medically complex population, filling an important role in the continuum of care. We provide an acute level of care and services to patients requiring a long hospitalization with a focus on rehabilitating the patient back to their prior level of care. LTACHs address the needs of a small, but growing, patient population who are too sick to be in a Skilled Nursing Facility or Sub Acute. The average length of stay for a patient in a LTACH is 25 days. Depending upon the severity of illness and the progress of the patient there are those who stay for a shorter period of time and those who stay for a longer period of time. The patient population in an LTACH is thought to represent two to three percent of the total patient population, and can represent as much as 40 percent of the critical care dollars spent by acute care hospitals.

Helping a Long Term Acute Care patient is often a long and challenging road. But there is compassionate and effective help along the way at VIBRA Specialty Hospital of Portland.