Commonwealth Regional Specialty Hospital Inc

Programs: The hospital provides long-term acute care services in the community of bowling green, warren county, kentucky. Generally, the hospital provides diagnostic and medical treatment or rehabilitation to patients with chronic disease or complex medical conditions. Commonwealth regional specialty hospital, inc. Was established to act and operate exclusively for charitable purposes in meeting an existing need for long-term acute care hospital services in the community of bowling green, warren county, kentucky. Long-term acute care hospitals (as recognized by 42 cfr 412. 23(e)) generally provide diagnostic and medical treatment or rehabilitation to patients with chronic disease or complex medical conditions whose average length of stay in the hospital exceeds 25 days. Recognizing a need for such health care access in the community, and as a key element of the continuum of care needed to provide an appropriate venue for patients who need acute services beyond those generally available in the general acute care hospital setting, commonwealth health corporation formed commonwealth regional specialty hospital, inc. To promote health, a charitable purpose, in southcentral kentucky. Commonwealth regional specialty hospital, inc. Is a long-term, acute care hospital offering a range of nursing and acute care inpatient and outpatient programs in its 28 bed long-term acute care facility. As such, it is primarily engaged in providing to inpatients, by or under the supervision of physicians, diagnostic and therapeutic services for medical diagnosis, treatment, and care of injured, disabled, or sick persons, or rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of injured, disabled, or sick persons. As a hospital, it maintains clinical records on all patients and has bylaws in effect concerning its staff of physicians. It requires that every patient be under the care of a physician and provides 24-hour nursing service by or supervised by a registered professional nurse, and has a licensed practical nurse or registered professional nurse on duty at all times. It has in effect a hospital utilization review plan and is licensed or is approved by the state of kentucky as meeting the standards established for such licensing. It also meets other health and safety requirements of the secretary of health and human services. This hospital is not primarily for the care and treatment of mental diseases. Services offered include: - acute medical care - oncology - medically complex acute medical care - wound care - respiratory therapy for disorders including tracheotomy - laboratory - pharmacy services - ventilator dependent services - emergency treatment - cardiac/cardiovascular condition services - radiology services - renal disease services the hospital's professional staff includes physicians who are engaged in the practice of medicine and who represent multiple specialties, including family practice, pulmonary, cardiac, radiation therapy and rehabilitative care. The staff also includes nurses, physical, occupational, and speech therapists, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, social workers, infection control specialists, nutritionists and others. Using an interdisciplinary team approach, the staff work collaboratively to provide care consisting of inpatient services of a general and specialized nature for patients requiring an extended length of stay due to the critical nature of their illness. As a hospital, commonwealth regional specialty hospital, inc. : (1) is organized as a nonprofit charitable organization for the purpose of operating as a hospital for the care of the sick, (2) is operated for the care of all persons in the community regardless of ability to pay the cost thereof, either directly or through third-party reimbursement, (3) will not restrict use of its facilities to a particular group of physicians and surgeons to the exclusion of all other qualified doctors, (4) and will not permit any of its earnings to inure directly or indirectly to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. The hospital began operations june 9, 2004, at facilities at 250 park street, bowling green, kentucky. Administrative and patient services are provided by employees of the corporation. Management services are provided by commonwealth health corporation, incorporated, a kentucky non-stock, non-profit corporation exempt from income taxes under section 501( c) (3) of the internal revenue code of 1986. During fiscal years 2017 and 2016, the hospital admitted 207 and 233 patients, respectively. During fiscal years 2017 and 2016, the hospital provided 5,604 and 5,934 days of patient care per year, respectively.