Medical Specialty Unit in LTC

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Several larger nursing homes are adding Medical Specialty Units. ( MSU ) This is separate from Skilled Care but more advanced than Rehab where the focus is on quality indicators, outcome measurements and teaching. The core of these programs is individualized and tailored to the patient for education, group and individual therapy with attention to comorbidities and physical therapy to return to maximum functionality. These new units have special programs in Diabetes Care, Wound Care, Pulmonary, Cardiac, Neuro and Ortho., just to name some. I would like to talk to any nurses out there who works in one or has ever managed one of these units.