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10/23/2025

Each of our specialty hospitals operates an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP), a coordinated effort between our pharmacy team, clinicians, environmental services and infection preventionists to stop the spread of infections caused by drug-resistant diseases. Our pharmacies ensure the safety and care of our patients and staff by managing and assessing all anti-microbial regimens.

10/22/2025

From fielding the first call about a new hospital location to welcoming the first patient through the door, our design, construction and facilities teams can be counted on to help create a healing environment.

Our design and construction teams oversee all hospital building projects—ensuring safety and efficiency in the engineering and ex*****on of plans. Once constructed, hospitals are turned over to our facilities teams who oversee day-to-day operations, including the physical building infrastructure, air quality and maintenance of all medical equipment.

Working together, these professionals contribute to a safe, comfortable and accessible setting for our patients, visitors and staff.

10/21/2025

When patients face the obstacles presented by a critical illness, respiratory therapists play an essential role in restoring comfort and quality of life. Their collaboration with other rehabilitation specialists ensures patients receive the most comprehensive care possible.

“Every injury is unique and can involve significant challenges,” says Lori Vessell, respiratory manager at Select Specialty Hospital – St. Louis. “As respiratory therapists, we work closely with physical and occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists to develop a well-rounded approach to each patient. We mobilize patients being supported by the ventilator to prevent wound development and can give them back their voice by attaching a speaking valve, alleviating fear and anxiety.”

As part of our critical care teams, respiratory therapists help give patients the best possible chance to move forward in recovery.

10/20/2025

Across our nationwide network of hospitals, infection preventionists work closely with our our health care facility teams and patients to implement needed steps to block infections and prevent them from spreading.

Strategies include water and air quality testing, remote surveillance for infection prevention, enforced personal protective equipment (PPE) usage and sanitation protocols for infection control.

During Health Care Quality Week, we recognize our infection preventionists for the key role they play in the safety and well-being of our patients, staff and the communities they serve.

10/19/2025

Our pharmacists and pharmacy technicians strive to administer the lowest effective dose of pain medication while ensuring that patients can participate in necessary activities. They coordinate these efforts alongside our multidisciplinary team as they discuss the needs of patients.

Each patient’s pain management is evaluated during clinical team meetings and multidisciplinary rounds to ensure adequate pain control. The team strives to balance pain management, cognitive function and therapy participation with the goal of minimizing medication dependence and enhancing patient outcomes.

10/17/2025

Physical therapy treats impairment and functional limitation through exercises, stretches and movements. Physical therapists are highly skilled medical professionals who diagnose and help individuals recover their health and get back to life.

10/15/2025

When a patient is admitted to one of our specialty hospitals, a case manager is present to help coordinate care while guiding families and caregivers throughout the recovery journey. Serving as a central point of communication, case managers support patients as they transition to the next level of care or when preparing to discharge.

10/13/2025

One of the case manager’s key responsibilities is looking around corners—determining a patient’s medical and social service needs after they leave the hospital. Our case managers coordinate meetings with patients, their families and the clinical team, explaining the various levels of care and verbally reviewing what to expect. Additionally, case managers can assist with ordering medical equipment that the patient needs for their return home.

10/01/2025

It’s National Physical Therapy Month. Our theme throughout October is, “Your future is better with PT!” We will highlight how physical therapy can lead to a better, stronger tomorrow.

Our physical therapists are here to guide patients through every step of recovery, from hospital to home. For our patients, that means helping them return to the moments that matter. For our physical therapists and physical therapist assistants, it means making a difference and helping people move forward.

Join us throughout the month as we highlight the power of physical therapy.

09/27/2025

Michael Scott has a lot of faith in physical therapists. And he has a lot of faith in himself. When a motorcycle crash paralyzed his legs, it didn’t take long for the 29-year-old to move from acceptance to adapting to and overcoming his spinal cord injury. A physician-led team of physical, occupational and recreational therapists from HonorHealth Rehabilitation Hospital were there to help, with innovative technology and helping him develop strategies for everyday tasks like dressing himself.

To learn more about Select Medical’s network of hospitals, visit: https://www.selectmedical.com/about-us/

Lying in his hospital bed moments after a doctor gave him some of the worst news of his life, Michael Scott found solace.

09/26/2025

Spinal cord injuries (SCI) demand highly specialized care. At Select Medical specialty hospitals, an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, therapists, and dietitians and others collaborate to address the complex challenges patients’ face – from blood pressure fluctuations and pain, to muscle loss, pressure sores and digestive issues that can lead to malnutrition.

“Good nutrition plays a supportive role in recovery,” said Camilla Johnson, clinical dietitian, Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation. She supports and educates patients with SCI during their rehabilitation. “In the hospital, good nutrition reduces the length of stay and … it enhances overall outcomes,” she said.

Here are four ways our dietitians contribute to patient care to promote healing and prevent complications.

09/25/2025

Laz Reeder checked into a hospital for hernia surgery, but aspirated during anesthesia and went into respiratory failure. The 35-year-old Florida man needed two life support machines to survive. A month later when Laz had stabilized, his wife Sierra turned to the continuum of care at Select Specialty Hospital - Pensacola and Select Medical Rehabilitation - Pensacola to continue his recovery and rehabilitation. Laz had mountains of motivation waiting for him at home: his baby daughter, Nyla.

Read his full story: https://bit.ly/3IEJZPj

01/01/2025

We wish you a safe and healthy new year.

03/14/2024

Pulmonary rehabilitation—restoring a patient’s ability to breathe on their own—is a crucial aspect of the rehabilitation process in our critical illness recovery hospitals. Select Medical takes a team approach to pulmonary rehab, with every member of the interdisciplinary team playing a key part in helping a patient regain their ability to breathe independently.
Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week serves as a reminder of the critical role that respiratory therapy plays in advancing the healing journey. This week, we’ll show you how our physician-led interdisciplinary teams work together, implementing different therapies to help our patients breathe freely again.

Respiratory therapists use flutter valves (a tube that only allows air to move in one direction) and positive expiratory pressure therapy, which helps get air into the lungs so that it can be expelled forcefully enough to dislodge mucus, to help a patient clear their airway and strengthen the muscles needed for breathing. Timed breathing trials are performed to strengthen the lungs. During these short bursts, the patient spends increasingly longer stretches of time off the ventilator and without supplemental oxygen support.

Speech-language pathologists use a Passy-Muir valve – a specialized valve that allows mechanically ventilated patients to speak. It is placed on the end of a patient’s trach tube, not only to help them regain their voice but to strengthen their lungs. Swallowing exercises and a flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) study can lead to resuming a more normal diet. Patients who can communicate and eat on their own are less anxious and more likely to participate in therapy.

Physical therapists implement a mobility protocol soon after the patient enters one of our critical illness recovery hospitals. By ensuring that the patient is sitting up twice a day and exercising their body, they grow stronger, improving their ability to breathe on their own.

Registered dietitians ensure ventilator patients are well nourished so they have the energy to participate in pulmonary rehabilitation. By adjusting a patient’s calorie intake to meet their needs, dietitians can slow weight loss and preserve the muscle necessary for patients to breathe independently.

Occupational therapists adapt activities of daily living to make it easier for patients to complete these tasks based on their current abilities. Common day-to-day activities, such as getting dressed, doing laundry, cooking and transferring between surfaces can seem impossible for pulmonary rehabilitation patients who have reduced endurance and strength. By teaching these patient’s adaptive strategies that reduce the energy needed to do these tasks, like sitting down to put your pants on or using a grabbing claw to reach far away objects, occupational therapists help their patients regain independence, conserve energy and build endurance over time.

Nurses are the backbone of every therapy team. They are the gatekeepers of care and a source of information for patients and their families. By monitoring and administering medications, they can help a patient achieve a state of wakefulness or painlessness that can make the difference during a day of therapy.

03/13/2024

It’s World Delirium Awareness Day. Delirium is a condition experienced by up to a third of all people admitted for inpatient care. Its effects are wide-ranging and can be frightening. Patients may not recognize their loved ones or caregivers, or they may hallucinate. No matter the symptom, delirium is disruptive to the healing process and disturbing for patients and their loved ones.

Recognizing patients who are at a higher risk for developing delirium can help us create strategies that provide effective care. Learn more about delirium with the following graphics.

03/13/2024

Nutrition plays a vital role in delivering quality patient care. Our registered dietitians are the food and nourishment experts of our interdisciplinary teams. Dietitians use their clinical expertise to develop and implement personalized nutrition plans that help each patient maintain the energy they need to continue healing.

We appreciate our registered dietitians for their important role in achieving successful patient outcomes through dietary education and individualized nutrition.

03/08/2024

The brain has a remarkable ability to heal itself after injury. In response to aging, trauma or disease, the structure of and connections in our brain are designed to adapt and change over a lifetime. This is called neuroplasticity.

There is a reason why our physical, occupational and speech therapists ask patients to repeat the same task. Repetition helps build the muscles and endurance needed to walk or talk as well as helping the brain recreate or restore the neural connections that make walking and talking a “no-brainer.” Every repetition of a word, movement, activity—even emotion—builds and strengthens the mental connections making it easier to accomplish everyday tasks.

Learn how our therapists put neuroplasticity into practice with those who have a brain injury: https://bit.ly/4c4fagV

03/05/2024

If you or a loved one experienced a brain injury, intense therapy can play a vital role in recovery and help get you back to an independent lifestyle.

Meet some of our brain injury patients who not only survived, but thrived.

To learn more about Select Medical’s network of hospitals, visit: https://www.selectmedical.com/about-us/

03/01/2024

March is Brain Injury Awareness month. According to the Brain Injury Association of America, someone in the United States sustains a brain injury every nine seconds. A brain injury can affect how a person thinks, acts and feels.

Brain injuries can result from an outside force to the head, known as a traumatic brain injury (TBI), or an internal cause – known as a non-traumatic brain injury (NTBI).

Learn more about the difference between a TBI and NTBI below, and check back throughout the month as we spotlight brain injury and how we help people recover.

02/07/2024

No matter the condition, our goal is to get you back to your best.

Read what some of our former patients learned about themselves on the journey to regain their independence.

02/05/2024

The determination and hard work exhibited by patients eager to return home after injury or illness is an inspirational experience.
Take it from our colleagues as they explain why working with patients is a privilege.

02/01/2024

February marks American Heart Month, a time to raise more awareness for heart health and cardiovascular diseases.

Select Medical admits a range of cardiac rehabilitation patients recovering from a variety of conditions, including heart failure, cardiomyopathy (heart issues making it hard to pump blood) and cardiac surgery, including heart transplants. Our interdisciplinary teams – including physicians, nurses and therapists – develop individualized treatment plans focused on post-surgical healing, dietary and medication education and restoring strength and endurance. The goal is to avoid cardiac complications and provide patients with the skills, strategies and techniques needed for independent and heart-healthy lives.

02/01/2024

Every patient’s journey toward independence is a unique experience. We are proud to have been a part of yours.

During National Patient Recognition Week, we thank all our patients for entrusting us with their care.

01/15/2024