Admissions
Phone: 320-864-7719
Fax: 320-864-7898
Bed Availability Notifications
Hospital case managers, subscribe to our biweekly admissions availability report.
What is a Transitional Care Program?
Transitional care management is for individuals who need complex medical care, skilled nursing care, and/or rehabilitation in order to be well enough to return home safely after a hospitalization for a major surgery, serious illness, or severe injury.
Capabilities
Discover how our comprehensive McLeod County transitional care services are designed to support your journey to recovery with personalized, compassionate solutions.
- Post-operative recovery
- Multiple facture/trauma recovery
- Stroke recovery
- Joint replacement rehabilitation
- Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
- IV antibiotics
- Total parenteral nutrition
- Enteral feeding
- Tracheostomy care
- Complex respiratory conditions
- High-flow oxygen
- Increased medical monitoring
- Wound debridement
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Negative pressure wound therapy
- Specialty wound dressings
- Hospital TCU features
- SNF Short-Stay Rehabilitation features
TCU Admissions Requirements
A nurse from Glencoe Regional Health will work with the transferring hospital to ensure qualifications for admission are met, including:
- Patient must have Medicare Part A or private insurance that covers transitional care / swing bed service
- Patient must have completed a three-day Medicare-approved hospital stay within the last 30 days
- Patient must require daily skilled nursing or rehabilitation care, including physical, occupational, or speech therapy, at least five days a week
- Patient requires skilled care as defined by Medicare
If you have any questions regarding transitional care admissions, please call 320-864-7719.
Length of Stay
Patients may stay in our hospital TCU for up to 100 days, in accordance with Medicare requirements. We are able to step patients down from our hospital TCU to our skilled nursing facility as their conditions improve. There is no length-of-stay limit in our skilled nursing facility.
Hospitalists
A hospitalist is a healthcare provider based in the hospital whose role is to oversee care for patients who have been admitted to our acute care unit or TCU to recover from illness, injury, or surgery.
The hospitalist monitors your status, orders tests and medications, keeps your primary care provider and loved ones informed, coordinates the work of other Glencoe Regional Health providers who are involved in your care, and decides when you are ready to be discharged. Our hospitalists work in weeklong shifts, so it’s likely that the same hospitalist will oversee your care throughout your stay.
Certified nurse practitioner Michele Schuberg supports the hospitalists by rounding on patients in our TCU each weekday for added coordination between the hospitalist and the TCU nursing team lead.
