Transitional Care

The Transitional Care Unit (TCU) at Cerenity White Bear Lake provides rehabilitation for those who aren’t ready to return home after a hospital stay. Our TCU features 32 private and semi-private rooms, including a special bariatric room for larger clients. Meals are served restaurant style in the unit’s separate dining room. To help patients recover as quickly as possible, physical, occupational and speech therapy are offered six days a week. Outpatient therapy is available as well.

The TCU is located in the Care Center and patients have access to campus amenities, including the chapel, spiritual care and beauty/barber shop.

Specially trained staff includes:

• Nurses
• Physical therapists
• Occupational therapists
• Speech-language pathologists
• Dietitian
• Social workers
• Recreation therapists
• Physicians and nurse practicioners

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 care — IV for hydration and antibiotics, MRSA, VRE, pain management
• 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
• Traumatic brain injury
• Wound management

Special features

• Chapel
• Covered veranda for enjoying outdoors
• Gift area
• Beauty/barber shop
• Smoke-free building