Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare offers outstanding patient-centered transitional and long term care at three convenient locations in Southeast Wisconsin. Transitional care is available for those individuals who require a few extra days or weeks of nursing and therapies following a hospital stay or an illness. Extended care is available for those who need care for longer periods of time.
Special programs
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare’s transitional care bridges the gap between hospital and home for a variety of medical conditions and care needs, including:
- Complex medical and post-surgical care
- Rehabilitative care: speech as well as physical and occupational therapies
- Restorative nursing care
- Wound care
- End-of-life care, including hospice services provided through Wheaton Franciscan Hospice
Why choose Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare?
We recognize our patients as individuals with unique physical, emotional, spiritual, and cultural needs. As a compassionate, faith-based health care provider, we believe developing a positive relationship with our patients and families is essential to the healing process. Each of our transitional and long term care facilities offers person-directed care that incorporates individual choices and encourages patient autonomy. An interdisciplinary team collaborates to meet resident needs and achieve their goals. Individualized care planning enables each resident to function at his/her highest level ensuring that their stay with us can be a special time of personal growth as well as physical healing.
Our facilities are unique in that each is located on a hospital campus, providing patients with comprehensive and coordinated care at all times. Geriatric nurse specialists and the Hospital Elder Life Program can assist geriatric patients with dementia. Each facility provides in-house therapy and activity programs that are customized to meet resident needs and also offer comprehensive patient and family education.
Learn more about the Circle of Life Foundation.
Other services
- A home-like environment with self-select menus and intimate dining
- Private and semi-private rooms
- Spiritual care services and an on-call chaplain
- Social and cultural activities
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