Success Stories
Mr. Henderson
Recovery After a Moped Accident
Mr. Henderson was riding a moped and was hit by a car. From the impact, he developed a blood clot in his brain and underwent emergency surgery for removal of the clot.
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He was admitted to Kindred Hospital Northland to continue his recovery. Upon admission, he was dependent on a ventilator to assist with his breathing and was minimally responsive to our staff and other stimuli. Working with the Kindred team, Mr. Henderson began to make excellent progress in his recovery. In just 26 days, at the time of his discharge to a lower level of care, Mr. Henderson was able to dress himself with moderate assistance, could walk over 100 feet with a rolling walker and able to breathe on his own, no ventilator needed! We are so proud of Mr. Henderson and wish him the best as he continues to recover!
John
Everyone Worked Together
John was working on his farm. He hopped off his tractor to shut a gate and his tractor kept moving.
“I tried to jump on it, like a dummy, and fell,” John said. “The tractor ran over me.”
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He was immobilized with broken bones, fractured ribs and a punctured lung.
“Somehow I was able to wiggle around and get the cell phone out of my pocket,” he said. He called his wife, and within an hour a medical helicopter was taking him to a short-term acute care hospital.
He stayed there in the Intensive Care Unit for seven weeks and was then admitted to Kindred Hospital.
“Really, by that point he was still in critical condition,” his wife said. “He was totally dependent on a ventilator to breathe. The people at the hospital had done everything they could – we just needed to go somewhere where they had expertise in caring for vent patients.”
Almost immediately, the caregivers at Kindred Hospital began rehabilitation therapy and the process of weaning John from the ventilator.
“He had been on his back for seven weeks, and gradually they kept having him do a little more at a time,” his wife said. “The walking helped him strengthen his lungs.”
“I felt like I was making progress, absolutely,” John said. “I’d heard of Kindred before, but I didn’t really know what they did.”
Six weeks later, John was released to home care to fully recover.
“By the time we left, he was walking, breathing, swallowing and eating,” his wife said. “And it was the teamwork that was great.”
“The care was excellent,” John said. “Everybody knew what they were doing and everybody worked together.”
“Just excellent.”