Where to Find Hospitals Offering Cooperative Care
Many hospitals are looking at new ways to care for acutely ill, but ambulatory, patients.
“Some have made arrangements with adjacent hotels, and there is one out West that is considering revamping its parking lot to accommodate recreational vehicles, where patients could live during their stays,” said Barbara Giloth of the American Hospital Assn.
Dr. Anthony J. Grieco, medical director for the Cooperative Care Unit at the New York University Medical Center, said there are about 18 other facilities in the United States that have incorporated some aspects of cooperative care, in which patients are required to bring along a relative or friend to help tend to their needs.
Grieco provides the following list, but he says there may be others of which he is unaware:
Interfaith Medical Center, Salt Lake City; Greater Southeast Community Hospital, Washington; Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, San Antonio; Vanderbilt University and Baptist Hospital, Nashville, Tenn.; Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis; Wilcox Women’s Health Center, Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center, Portland, Ore.; InterActive Care Unit, Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh; Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, Burlington, Vt.; Transitional Care Unit, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland.
Illinois Masonic Hospital, Chicago; Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia; Self-Care Unit, Johnson R. Bowman Health Center for the Elderly, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center, Chicago; University of Texas-Medical Branch, Jennie Sely Hospital, Galveston, Tex.; Planetree Model Hospital Project, Presbyterian Medical Center, San Francisco; Toledo Hospital, Toledo, Ohio; Veterans Administration Hospital, Columbia, S.C., and Rhode Island Hospital and Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Providence, R.I.
