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| Inside Partners Continuing Care: A Closer Look at Shaughnessy-Kaplan Rehabilitation Hospital
"This project was successful because of the commitment of the team members to improve patient outcomes at Shaughnessy," said Joanne Fucile, RN, Vice President of Patient Care, SKRH. "The project team worked together on careful analysis and implementing insightful recommendations to decrease C-Diff in our hospitalized patients." SKRH will receive the award at the annual NALTH meeting in San Antonio in October.
The Basics of SKRH Hidden up on a hill, overlooking historic Salem and Salem Harbor, Shaughnessy-Kaplan Rehabilitation Hospital (SKRH) has been a staple of the North Shore for more than three decades. Originally owned by the city, the hospital in its current location was first named the Dr. J. Robert Shaughnessy Rehabilitation Hospital / Dr. Israel Kaplan Public Health Center, opening its doors on September 29, 1975. Currently, SKRH is a 120-bed Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTAC) on floors two, three and four with a separately licensed, 40-bed Transitional Care Unit (TCU) on its fifth f loor. It is located adjacent to Salem Hospital, allowing unique and immediate access to acute care diagnostic and specialty services. Offering Inpatient and Outpatient
Rehabilitation Services "Patients come to Shaughnessy-Kaplan through referrals from both Partners and non-Partners acute care hospitals ," said Anthony Sciola, President and CEO of SKRH. "It is our goal to deliver a level of quality care and customer service that will make SKRH the referral of choice whenever a patient needs long-term complex medical care." The hospital's Outpatient Therapy Division has clinics in Salem, Lynn, Peabody, Marblehead, Middleton and North Andover, and performs more than 50,000 patient therapy visits per year. SKRH offers traditional physical, occupational and speech therapy services along with a wide variety of outpatient specialty programs, including Hand Therapy, Women's Health and Sports Medicine. Providing an Interdisciplinary
Model of Care "At Shaughnessy we use an interdisciplinary
model of care because we believe that a team approach is truly the
best way to achieve your goals in rehab," said Julie Voegelin,
Director of Program Development at SKRH. Originally built as a contagious disease hospital in the 1700s, the hospital changed its mission after the invention of bacteriostatic drugs in 1952. At that point, the City of Salem recognized the need to care for the aged and chronically ill population and the hospital became the Salem Health Department Hospital. It remained that way until 1975 when Dr. J. Robert Shaughnessy and Dr. Israel Kaplan opened the doors of the new hospital on Dove Avenue. In June 1990, Salem Hospital Corporation, later to become North Shore Medical Center (NSMC), took over the management of the hospital license and SKRH leased the land and building from the city. In 1997 SKRH purchased the hospital from the city. In 1996, North Shore Medical Center, which then consisted of Salem Hospital, North Shore Children's Hospital, and Shaughnessy-Kaplan Rehabilitation Hospital, became the first community-based system to become a full member of Partners HealthCare. In April 2004, SKRH moved from NSMC to join the
Non-Acute Care Services Division of Partners HealthCare, called Partners
Continuing Care (PCC). SKRH is joined in PCC by Spaulding Rehabilitation
Hospital, The Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands, Partners
Home Care, the North End Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, and The
Boston Center for Rehabilitative and Sub-acute Care. All entities with Partners Continuing Care recently created promotional videos; to view SKRH's video, click here.
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