For Patients with Short or Long-Term Illnesses
For patients with short or long-term illnesses, Corona Regional Medical Center features a 61-bed unit for those who need daily skilled nursing or subacute care. Our nursing unit provides a high ratio of registered and licensed vocational nurses to patients, assuring high quality care in a compassionate, homelike setting.
Minimum Criteria Needed for Subacute Care
- Patient's condition has stabilized to the point that acute care is not medically necessary; and
- Patient's condition warrants 24-hour nursing care by a Registered Nurse;
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And any one of the following three items:
- A tracheostomy with continuous mechanical ventilation for at least fifty percent of the day; or
- Tracheostomy care with suctioning and room air mist or oxygen as needed and one of the six treatment procedure listed in the Treatment Procedures below; or
- Administration of any three of the six treatment procedure listed in the Treatment Procedures below.
Treatment Procedures
- Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
- Inpatient physical, occupational, and/or speech therapy, at least two hours per day, five days a week
- Tube feeding (nasogastric or gastrostomy)
- Inhalation therapy treatments during every shift and minimum of four times per 24-hour period
- Continuous IV therapy involving administration of therapeutic agents or IV therapy necessary for hydration or frequent IV drug administration via peripheral and/or central line without continuous infusion, such as Heparin lock
- Debridement, packing and medicated irrigation with or without whirlpool treatment