Kindred Healthcare opens California replacement hospital
Kindred Healthcare has opened a new hospital in Folsom, Calif., and expanded its homecare and hospice business in Boston and Denver.
Kindred Hospital Sacramento is a 39-bed long-term acute care hospital with the capacity to expand to 58 beds after the moratorium on LTAC hospital development expires in 2012. It replaces a Kindred Hospital Sacramento facility that also had 39 licensed beds.
The new hospital has 14 private rooms, including six intensive care unit beds, and two state-of-the-art operating rooms.
Kindred also announced that its Peoplefirst HomeCare and Hospice business has opened a new hospice in the Boston area, which began serving patients in June. In Denver, Peoplefirst received a license for home healthcare services, becoming what officials said is the first Kindred market to offer both hospice and home healthcare services.
“We are excited that we continue to find opportunities to expand the continuum of post-acute care services we offer in our key markets and invest capital wisely for our shareholders,” said Paul J. Diaz, president and CEO of Kindred.
“The investment we’ve made in Sacramento reflects our continued commitment to improving and expanding our long-term acute care hospital services in this growing market. We are also pleased that we continue to find opportunities to expand our homecare and hospice businesses through de novo development and acquisitions in other cluster markets like Boston and Denver,” he said.
Along with Boston and Denver, Peoplefirst HomeCare and Hospice serves Columbus and Dayton, Ohio, and Indianapolis.
Kindred Healthcare is reportedly the largest diversified provider of post-acute care services in the United States. Its hospital division operates 83 LTAC hospitals (6,580 licensed beds) in 24 states, while its health services division operates 222 nursing and rehabilitation centers (27,523 licensed beds) in 27 states.
