The 34-bed Acute Care Comprehensive Physical Rehabilitation Hospital facility was a greenfield project in Edwardsville, Illinois. Anderson Hospital has operated under the management of Kindred Healthcare, a 20-bed inpatient comprehensive acute physical rehabilitation service at its main hospital campus in Maryville, Illinois, and replaces that unit with this new free-standing hospital facility.
The two-story 49,371 square-foot hospital facility provides significant outpatient specialized services in addition to focused attention on acute care rehabilitation with all 34 patient rooms designed as private rooms. The new hospital includes a highly specialized 12-bed brain injury acute care unit.
The building features a large patient therapy area with zero gravity, bionic training, interactive therapy, and balance control equipment, and a comprehensive bank of basic physical medicine equipment.
Additionally, the free-standing hospital includes space for specialized neurological testing and evaluation, speech and audiology services, and a large training area for re-introducing Activities of Daily Living to assist patients in learning the skills that allow them to return to independent functioning in their home environments.
The building is designed to minimize patient travel to essential services, to allow hospital staff to access, monitor and provide a high level of service, education and training to patients in the acute rehabilitation recovery phase. Exterior access to the building is accomplished with proximal parking, and an open registration function that utilizes building elements to welcome and reduce patient and family anxiety and to smooth and efficiently process both in and out patients who will utilize the facility.
