How is St. Elias Specialty Hospital different from a regular acute care hospital?
St. Elias patients have already been through diagnostic and surgical procedures, have been stabilized and are going to require the level of care typically provided in a hospital for an extended period of time. At St. Elias, a multi-disciplinary team is assembled to develop an individual care plan for each patient. That team meets regularly to assess the patient’s progress toward the goal of medical recovery. We are focused upon understanding and providing for the needs of our patients and the members of their support systems. The long-stay patient at St. Elias is not the exception, but the rule, and we have created an environment that is free of the distractions that exist in regular acute care hospitals. St. Elias does not have an emergency room, labor and delivery, special imaging, surgery, and other departments not related to our mission.
