Success Stories

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.”