Transitional Care

The Transitional Care Unit (TCU) at Cerenity Humboldt, rated 5 Stars on Minnesota’s Nursing Home Report Card, provides rehabilitation for people not ready to return home after a hospital visit. Our TCU has 30 private, spacious rooms, including bariatric rooms for larger clients. Each room has a TV and cable. Meals are served restaurant-style in the unit’s separate dining room.

The TCU staff’s approach is to plan for discharge upon the patient’s arrival. They coordinate the patient’s rehabilitative care to improve function; support the patient as he/she adapts to changes in physical and functional status; and maximize the patient’s level of independence in daily living activities. To help patients recover as quickly as possible, physical and occupational therapy are offered six to seven days a week and speech therapy five days a week. Outpatient therapy is available as well.

Humboldt’s TCU is located in Cerenity Residence – Humboldt, an assisted living facility. TCU patients have access to the amenities, including a chapel and spiritual care, beauty/barber shop and gift cart.

Specially trained staff includes:

• Nurses
• Physical and occupational therapists
• Speech-language pathologists
• Dietitian
• Social workers
• Recreation therapists
• Physicians and nurse practitioners

Scope of services

• Cardiac care – heart attacks, congested heart failure, bypass surgeries and angina
• Chronic kidney disease – patients who are on dialysis and scheduled at a dialysis center
• Deconditioned states – Cancer, HIV, AIDS
• Diabetes management
• Neurologic – ALS, Parkinson’s, MS, strokes
• Orthopedics – hip, knee and shoulder replacements; fractures; fusions; amputations; laminectomies; vertebroplasty
• Post medical/surgical – IV for hydration and antibiotics, MRSA, VRE, pain management
• Hickman catheter
• Porta catheter
• PICC line
• Pulmonary – COPD, pneumonia
• Spinal cord – Halos, complete/incomplete C1-S5
• Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) – receiving all nutritional needs through an IV
• Tube feeding – J-tube and gastric tube
• Nasogastric (NG) tube
• Traumatic brain injury
• Wound management – including negative pressure therapy