Admissions
phone: 320-864-7719
fax: 320-864-7898
Location
Our hospital TCU is located at:
Glencoe Regional Health
1805 Hennepin Ave. N.
Glencoe, MN 55336
Map and Directions
When you arrive, enter through the Emergency / Urgent Care entrance.
Capabilities
Discover how our comprehensive McLeod County transitional care services are designed to support your journey to recovery with personalized, compassionate solutions.
Complex Medical Care
- Post-operative recovery
- Multiple fractures / trauma recovery
- Total parenteral nutrition (TPN)
- Enteral feeding
- Tracheostomy care
- Complex respiratory conditions
- High-flow oxygen
- Medications that require increased medical monitoring
- IV antibiotics (requires more than 2 doses in 24 hours)
Rehabilitation
- Joint replacement
- Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
- Stroke recovery
Advanced Wound Care*
- Wound debridement and specialty dressings (requires more than 2 dressings daily)
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Negative pressure wound therapy
*To meet admission requirements, patient must require a skilled service in addition to wound care.
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.
Features
Features of our hospital TCU program include:
Generous length of stay (LOS). Medicare allows for up to a 100-day swing-bed stay.
Focus on quality. We monitor our consistency in identifying patient goals, establishing a plan of care, assessing the patient’s risk for harm, use of a communication board and weekly patient bedside rounds. Our commitment to high-quality nursing care is further reflected in our low incidence of hospital-based infections.
Optimized nursing care. Our TCU is staffed with one registered nurse (RN) trained in complex care for every 3-5 patients. Hospitalized patients may move to the SNF setting when they are stronger and more independent.
Responsive to admission inquiries. During weekday business hours, we respond to admission inquiries within four business hours.
Multidisciplinary care team. Each patient has a care team that may include: hospitalist physician; nurse practitioner; care coordinator; skilled nursing staff; occupational, physical, respiratory and/or speech therapist; social worker; pharmacist; dietitian; and/or activities specialist.
Flexible, patient-centered approach. Each patient has input into establishing the goals for his or her treatment plan. The care team supports the patient.
Bedside rounds. A weekly care conference encourages compliance with the care plan, promotes teamwork and enables the patient and family members to ask questions.
Daily on-site physician. A hospitalist physician and nurse practitioner supervise care for all TCU patients – seven days per week – backed by a dedicated medical director.
Hospital services on-site. Level IV trauma center staffed by a physician 24/7. Immediate access to radiology and lab services if needed.
Intensive therapy. Occupational, physical, and speech therapists and equipment are available on-site weekdays. Physical therapy is available on Saturday mornings. Patients may receive up to three hours of therapy per day. Assistive equipment is provided as needed.
Advanced inpatient care for acute wounds. For patients with acute or complex wounds resulting from trauma or surgery, we provide specialty dressings, negative pressure wound therapy and other specialized wound healing techniques right in the TCU.
Advanced outpatient care for complex wounds. For patients with complex wounds resulting from trauma or surgery and/or the complications of chronic conditions such as diabetes, we provide hyperbaric oxygen therapy, debridement, compression therapy, bio-engineered skin grafts, edema management, negative pressure wound therapy and other advanced healing techniques on an outpatient basis at the Center for Advanced Wound Care on our Glencoe campus.
Comfortable setting with lots of amenities. Our TCU features private rooms (no additional fee!) with flat-screen cable TVs, free wireless Internet, and room-service dining. Furthermore, patients are welcome to move about our campus as their conditions permit to visit our chapel, hair salon, coffee shop, and cafeteria. We offer many opportunities for self-directed or group leisure activities.
Small community setting. Just 50 minutes west of the Twin Cities, Glencoe offers all the simple pleasures of a small town. Our campus is easily accessible from Highway 212.
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.
