Success Stories

Her physicians were able to stabilize her condition, allowing Sharron be transferred and she then was brought to Kindred Hospital Northland for respiratory therapy and rehabilitation.

After a couple of weeks of intensive respiratory therapy, Sharron was able to be successfully weaned from the ventilator. She also completed her IV antibiotic treatment and began to make progress with her physical and occupational therapists toward regaining her strength and mobility. Sharron was very motivated to get better and she put her heart into all her therapy sessions.

After her breathing tube was removed and she was cleared by her speech pathologist to begin drinking and eating again, the feeding tube was removed. Sharron was now able to get up from bed and continued to improve by the time she was discharged to continue her recovery and her goal to return home. “I’m looking forward to hugging my neighbors and my three cats,” Sharron affirmed. “I’m also looking forward to sleeping in my own bed and enjoying my deck with a nice cup of coffee.”

In the ER he was heroically saved by skilled interventions from his physicians and nurses, although the damage to his neck and the fractures he sustained in his cervical vertebrae would leave him unable to move his arms or legs. He began his recovery in the ICU until he was stabilized and Dalton depended on a ventilator to support his lungs as well as a feeding tube for nutrition. When he was sufficiently stable to be transferred, Dalton was brought to Kindred Hospital Northland to begin aggressive respiratory therapy, continuation of medical care and specialized rehabilitation to enable the full potential of his recovery.

Understandably overwhelmed by the challenges he was facing, Dalton was having a difficult time at the beginning and was not very motivated to put much effort into his recovery; but with diligent care, support and encouragement from his team and his physician he turned his attitude around and his recovery finally started to show signs of progress.

When Dalton was liberated once and for all from the ventilator and could breathe on his own, it was a moment for all to celebrate. Soon after this success his breathing tube was removed and his speech pathologist then guided Dalton to regain his voice, swallow safely and begin to progress toward resuming a regular diet.

“I was having a rough time of it at first,” Dalton shared just before he was discharged to continue his recovery before finally going home. “But Dr. Patel had a great talk with me and my attitude changed after that. I just want to get home, get the healing process going and spend time with my girlfriend and family. Looking ahead I want to do some motivational speaking.”

One day she was found on the floor with abnormally high levels of blood sugar. At the hospital, Rosalind was placed on a ventilator to support her lungs and given a feeding tube to administer nutrition and she started IV antibiotic treatment.

When she was stable she was transferred to Kindred Hospital Northland to begin respiratory therapy and rehabilitation. Initially Rosalind’s respiratory team had to address her pneumonia as they began to strengthen her lungs and she began to make steady progress until she was able to be taken off the ventilator and complete her IV treatments. Rosalind was also struggling with cognition and anxiety, which complicated the early part of her treatment at Kindred, but her team encouraged her and helped her manage her anxiety which enabled her to finally wean from the ventilator successfully.

Rosalind reached another milestone when the breathing tube was removed and she was guided by her speech therapist to safely swallow again, allowing her to begin to drink and eat a normal diet. Her mobility improved during her stay at Kindred as well and Rosalind was once again able to stand up and walk with some assistance and a rolling walker. “The first thing I’m going to do when I get home is hug my entire family!” Rosalind expressed. “Then I plan on redecorating my home. I am grateful for the care I got here at Kindred Northland which has been absolutely 100% the best care ever.”

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!

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.”