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Nov 16th, 2017 Oakdale, NY–Affinity Skilled Living & Rehabilitation Center ( http://chooseaffinity.com ), a leading skilled nursing and rehabilitation center, specializing in sub-acute care, near Central Islip in New York’s Suffolk County, is pleased to announce the success of their Pulmonary/ Respiratory Rehabilitation and Ventilator Unit created to treat high acuity pulmonary patients. Affinity Skilled Living is one of few skilled nursing facilities serving the hospitals on Long Island to provide ventilator care.
Patients participating in the Respiratory Program at Affinity Skilled Living receive an individualized plan of care created by Affinity’s interdisciplinary medical and respiratory team of on-site Respiratory Therapists (RTs) in collaboration with the Director of Pulmonary. The RTs are onsite 24 hours daily. The program is aligned with guidelines from the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
In addition to respiratory care, participants may receive physical, speech, and occupational therapy sessions as prescribed by their attending physician. Patients diagnosed with bronchiectasis, COPD, emphysema, cystic fibrosis, lung cancer, neuromuscular disease, obesity-related respiratory disease, asthma, post-operative thoracic/abdominal surgery and ventilator dependency are included in this program.
The Respiratory Rehabilitation and Ventilator Unit is a team of professionals led by Dr. Sam Davidoff, DO, D-IM, D-CCM, D-RD, specializing in lung disease, critical care, sleep disorders and neurological critical care conditions. A licensed Pulmonologist, Dr. Davidoff has extensive experience in Cardio-Pulmonary Rehab.
“We are proud to be able to provide individualized care for patients with respiratory illnesses on Long Island,” said Stephanie Malone, Administrator of Affinity Skilled Living. “Led by Dr. Davidoff and his team, the opportunity to offer this unique program in our skilled center enables us to help our patients facing these difficult diagnoses improve more quickly and return to a higher quality of life if able. We are proud of our medical team and their ability to successfully wean identified residents off of ventilators to gain improvement in their quality of life”.
For more information, please visit http://chooseaffinity.com or call 631-218-5900 for a tour.
Affinity Skilled Living & Rehabilitation Center provides Progressive Care to Enhance the Quality of Life. Affinity is a 280 bed sub-acute skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility located at 305 Locust Avenue in Oakdale, New York providing short-term and long-term care, physical, occupational and speech therapy, an on-site ventilator unit, respiratory and pulmonary rehabilitation, IV therapy and wound care that includes complicated wound management and care for difficult or non-healing wounds.
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