The University of California, Davis, today announced that along with Kindred Healthcare, it will construct and operate a second hospital on its downtown Sacramento campus to provide more inpatient rehabilitation services in Sacramento County. The facility will provide care for twice as many physical rehab patients as currently can be treated at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Medical Center. The $60 million hospital will create 200 new jobs, offer convenient care for local patients and families, and be located at Aggie Square, the university鈥檚 newly announced technology and innovation hub just south of the Medical Center.
鈥淎ggie Square brings the university, industry and the community together to build for the future,鈥 said 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Chancellor Gary S. May. 鈥淭his new 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis hospital reflects that type of vital public-private partnership. It will include innovative technologies to help patients get back to their lives faster and healthier, provide opportunities for collaboration with biomedical research, and it will create new economic opportunities for the surrounding community.鈥
Kindred, a nationally known health care services company based in Louisville, Kentucky, will manage the day-to-day operations of the hospital, where physicians and clinical care teams will provide patients with leading-edge care. Physicians working at the new hospital will have privileges at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health and utilize the facility to provide care for patients who have had surgery, but aren鈥檛 ready to return home yet.
Not only will this hospital more than double the capacity to meet the neurological treatment needs of the community, but it will provide an estimated $60 million in capital infusion for the local area and generate 200 new jobs in Sacramento.
To be known as the 鈥溞掳拿帕喜誓谀恍畔 Davis Rehabilitation Hospital,鈥 the facility, with all private rooms, will offer rehabilitation treatments for patients recovering from conditions such as stroke, traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury.
State-of-the-art care
鈥淲e view our partnership to build and operate a new facility with 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health as an important way to address the growing need for inpatient rehabilitation services in the Sacramento area,鈥 said Jason Zachariah, president of Kindred Rehabilitation Services, a division of Kindred that oversees 22 inpatient rehabilitation hospitals around the nation. 鈥淭his is a quality-focused collaboration with a nationally recognized academic health care leader. By working together, we know we can deliver the kind of excellent care that improves patients鈥 lives and helps their families.鈥
The new hospital will be built on the site of a currently unused 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis building at 4875 Broadway that will be torn down. University and Kindred officials are now planning the construction project and hope to be providing patient care services by the latter part of 2020. It is being designed to continue and elevate state-of-the-art care, encourage research and discovery of new therapies, and develop best practices for the clinical approaches that post-acute care patients require.
鈥淭his is an important day for Sacramento, for 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health and for the neighborhoods surrounding 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Medical Center,鈥 said Mayor Darrell Steinberg. 鈥淛ust a few short months ago, I joined Chancellor May, several of my elected colleagues and a number of community advocates for the Aggie Square announcement. Today, we鈥檙e seeing the first tangible step toward that vision. This rehabilitation hospital, and the investment from a national health care leader like Kindred, illustrates our goal of leveraging the many strengths of Sacramento as a catalyst for economic change, research innovation, and improving health for all.鈥
The mayor鈥檚 enthusiasm for the new facilities was echoed by Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-Calif.), whose district includes the new hospital site.
鈥淭his proves yet again that Sacramento is full of innovation and collaborative energy. With the leadership of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis and other strategic partners, Sacramento is committed to making intentional investments in our health care system that help meet the needs of our community. Establishing a new free-standing physical rehabilitation hospital in Sacramento County is something to be proud of,鈥 Matsui said. 鈥溞掳拿帕喜誓谀恍畔 Davis has been a leader in the types of projects that can attract investment and partners from around the country. This hospital marks one of the first steps toward the development of Aggie Square, reflecting 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis鈥 progress towards providing expanded access to vital patient care while also contributing to a thriving community.鈥
Meeting community needs
Kindred and 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health officials said the new care facility will focus on adult patients. Inpatient rehabilitation will include physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech pathology services, which involve therapists, physicians and nurses helping patients with the restoration of their physical function and mobility as well as gain independence in everyday activities such self-care, home-making and work.
State Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), who is a former 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health pediatrician, also expressed enthusiasm for the project.
鈥淎s a physician, I have advocated for access to quality of care, including rehabilitation care and I am pleased that Chancellor May and 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health are working to bring more rehabilitation services to the Sacramento community. Combined with the promise of Aggie Square, clinical care and innovation opportunities will provide new, high quality jobs that truly benefit our community and region.鈥
All jobs related to the current rehabilitation facilities at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Medical Center will be maintained, with no positions eliminated by the move to the new hospital. The current rehabilitation team 鈥 nurses, physicians, physical therapists and others 鈥 will be trained and reassigned to other positions within the hospital. Physicians can obtain privileges at the new hospital, and those employees who want to continue providing rehabilitation treatment and care in an inpatient setting may choose to work directly for the new hospital.
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Medical Center is closing its current rehabilitation facilities, which are scattered across six areas in two buildings, to comply with the state鈥檚 2020 seismic safety requirements. Being able to meet the earthquake safety mandate by building an entirely new facility was good news for another elected leader whose district also includes the university鈥檚 Sacramento campus and surrounding neighborhoods.
鈥淭he 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Rehabilitation Hospital is another win for the Stockton Boulevard corridor and the City of Sacramento,鈥 said Assemblyman Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento). 鈥淭his visionary partnership that 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health established with Kindred Healthcare enables the health system to rapidly meet the patient care needs of our community as well as efficiently comply with our state鈥檚 critical seismic safety requirements for hospitals like 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Medical Center.鈥
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About 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health is improving lives and transforming health care by providing excellent patient care, conducting groundbreaking research, fostering innovative, inter-professional education, and creating dynamic, productive partnerships with the community. The academic health system includes one of the country鈥檚 best medical schools, a 619-bed acute-care teaching hospital, a 1,000-member physician鈥檚 practice group and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. It is home to a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, an international neurodevelopmental institute, a stem cell institute and a comprehensive children鈥檚 hospital. Other nationally prominent centers focus on advancing telemedicine, improving vascular care, eliminating health disparities and translating research findings into new treatments for patients. Together, they make 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis a hub of innovation that is transforming health for all. For more information, visit .
About Kindred Healthcare
Kindred Healthcare, LLC is a healthcare services company based in Louisville, Kentucky with annual revenues of approximately $3.4 billion. At June 30, 2018, Kindred through its subsidiaries had approximately 38,200 employees providing healthcare services in 1,795 locations in 45 states, including 75 long-term acute care hospitals, 21 inpatient rehabilitation hospitals (22 as of July 12, 2018), 12 sub-acute units, 98 inpatient rehabilitation units (hospital-based) and contract rehabilitation service businesses which served 1,589 non-affiliated sites of service. Ranked as one of Fortune magazine's Most Admired Healthcare Companies for nine years, Kindred's mission is to promote healing, provide hope, preserve dignity and produce value for each patient, resident, family member, customer and employee we serve. For more information, go to . You can also follow us on and .
About Aggie Square
will serve as a collaborative technology and innovation campus that leverages the university鈥檚 strengths to become the catalyst for economic change, creates jobs, and helps spur economic vitality of the surrounding neighborhoods and the broader Sacramento region. It will serve as a model public-private partnership, increasing technology transfer and creating equitable opportunities for residents in the community and region. It will support new jobs at a variety of education levels. Building on the strengths of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis and economic leverage of the city of Sacramento, the potential for public-private partners includes the areas of life sciences, food systems, mobility, government and civic technology, and arts and communications.
Media Resources
Charles Casey, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health Public Affairs, 916-752-6480 (mobile), cecasey@ucdavis.edu
Kimberly Hale, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis News and Media Relations, 530-574-7471 (mobile), klhale@ucdavis.edu