Patient’s Age: 67-years-old
Date of Admission: 11/14/19
Admitted From: Vanderbilt Hospital
Discharge Date: TBD
Reason for stay: Motor Vehicle accident resulting in multiple fractures
How did this patient hear about Trevecca Center? Patient’s mother was also a resident at Trevecca.

Details of experience:
Mr. Barry Parnell was admitted to Trevecca Center for Rehabilitation and Healing on November 14th from Vanderbilt Hospital. Mr. Parnell was in a car accident resulting in several fractures and would require skilled nursing care. Mr. Parnell suffered a right tibia and fibula fracture, along with rib fractures, traumatic pneumothorax, acute kidney injury, neuropathy, anemia, and a left clavicle head fracture along with a surgical wound. When Mr. Parnell arrived at Trevecca, he was welcomed by our team, each conducting their own assessments, to closely monitor his needs and progress to get him well, so he can return home.

Upon arrival, Mr. Parnell was admitted to our respiratory therapy unit. In this unit, Mr. Parnell’s vitals could be monitored closely and routinely. Additionally, Mr. Parnell had a surgical wound requiring treatment by our wound care team. This team quickly got to work assessing his wound and providing the treatment that he would need in order for the wound to properly heal. The wound to be assessed was on his right leg, a large abrasion. The wound quickly reduced in size and depth and is healing beautifully without infection.

Our therapy department worked closely with the patient to support strength training and retrain the legs movements. Mr. Parnell constantly challenged himself to reach his goals and worked hand-in-hand with the staff toward that end.

Mr. Parnell is known to our Trevecca community as his mother was a resident with us. He has constantly pushed himself to get better and to regain his strength. Mr. Parnell has participated in our activities programs and interacted with other residents. Although Mr. Parnell has been through a great deal, he still managed to keep staff laughing and smiling and remained a friendly face. We are so glad that he chose to heal at Trevecca Center for Rehabilitation and Healing.

Patient’s Age: 76-years-old
Date of Admission: 10/09/19
Admitted From: VA Medical Center
Discharge Date: TBD
Discharge To: Home
Reason for stay: Sepsis

Details of experience:
Ms. Eaton arrived at Trevecca Center for Rehabilitation and Healing on October 9th, 2019 after staying at the VA Medical Center for 10 nights. She was admitted to the hospital because of a rectal abscess that was growing in size and increasing in pain. After her stay at the VA, she was brought to Trevecca Center so she would have 24-hour skilled nursing care while she is in her healing process.

After her family toured Trevecca Center and spoke to the wound care team, they decided that this would be the best fit for Ms. Eaton. After she was admitted, she was greeted by staff in the therapy department, nursing department, social services and admissions for the initial assessments and welcoming.

During week one of Ms. Eaton being at Trevecca and wound team beginning their work on her wound was large and causing Ms. Eaton a lot of pain, her wound was being treated in three different areas on her bottom, averaging length at about 7.4 cm with a width of 5.7 cm and a depth of 3.1. Her wound began to heal rather quickly with Trevecca’s wonderful wound team taking the right steps to help treat her wound.

By week three, with Ms. Eaton receiving wound pump treatment three times a week and wound team tending to her wounds, Ms. Eaton’s wounds have gone down with the largest one at 4.8 cm in length, 2.4 cm in width and 1.1 cm in depth. The reports on Ms. Eaton’s wound show nothing but improvement, and during all of the pain from her wound that Ms. Eason has endured, she has always kept a smile on her face.

We are glad Ms. Eaton chose Trevecca Center to help her during her healing journey, and are beyond satisfied with the progress that she has made. Although a discharge date hasn’t been set in stone yet, with her consistently improving, we expect that she will be returning home rather soon, and wish her nothing but the best.

Patient’s Age: 89-years-old
Date of Admission: 08/02/18
Admitted From: Vanderbilt University Hospital
Discharge Date: 05/08/19
Discharge To: Home
Reason for stay: Acute and Chronic Respiratory Failure

Details of experience:
Mildred Blount is an 89-year-old female who admitted to Trevecca Center for Rehabilitation and Healing on August 2, 2018, with a diagnosis of acute and chronic Respiratory Failure. Prior to admission, she was deemed vent dependent due to recurrent pneumonia and severe muscular weakness Due to her diagnosis, she had undergone bedside surgery, receiving a feeding tube and tracheostomy. On October 3, 2018, shortly following her admission to Trevecca, she began weaning from the ventilator. By January 19, 2019, she was successfully weaned from the vent and performing trach collar trials. Less than a month later; on February 17, 2019, she was successfully decannulated!

However, that victory was short-lived, due to her recurrent pneumonia, and having to be retracted. Although she was discouraged, she never gave up hope. Immediately following her episode with pneumonia, Mrs. Blount was determined to wean from the vent again. She started vent weaning again on March 18, 2019, and was successfully weaned from the ventilator a second time! On April 20, 2019, Mrs. Blount suffered a third battle with pneumonia and had to be once again placed back on the ventilator. On May 8, 2019, she restarted trach collar trials and was successfully decannulated on May 27th. Mrs. Blount was able to overcome one of her biggest obstacles and go home to her family on May 31, 2019!

Age: 57-years-old
Date of Admission: 07/25/19
Admitted From: Vanderbilt University Hospital
Discharge Date: 09/30/19
Discharge To: Home
Length of stay: 67 days
Reason for stay: Wound dehiscence

Details of experience:
Ms. Laura Walls was is a 57-year-old female who was admitted to Trevecca Center for Rehabilitation and Healing on July 25, 2019, after staying at Vanderbilt Hospital for wound dehiscence and disease of thyroid gland and H/O colon cancer. After being admitted to Trevecca, she was met by the admissions team, social workers, our therapy team, and our wound care team to asses her. She was also greeted and assessed by many other members of our wonderful Trevecca team to gather details about Ms. Walls to help ensure that she has a wonderful stay at Trevecca.

While at Vanderbilt, she was informed of the damage of her wound and that she would need extra care for her wound, and was suggested our center. Our wound care team is very well admired from hospitals, and this particular wound that they have helped treat doesn’t fall short of showing how well their team works. On arrival, Ms. Laura Walls wound measured 23.0 x 1.0 x 8.0 cm with 25% yellow necrosis and 75% red granulation tissue. On August 20, 2019, the new measurement was 17.5 x 3.7 x 4.6 cm, meaning her wound had decreased 91.5% in wound volume since she was admitted to our center.

Ms. Walls was also seen by our wonder physical and occupational therapy team. Ms. Walls was admitted to their team for review after the wound had healed a certain amount. Ms. Walls was soon walking 200 feet and up to four steps. She was able to get dressed with minimum assistance along with bathing. Ms. Walls was discharged from physical and occupational therapy on August 15, 2019.

Ms. Walls’s wound continues to improve weekly thanks to our wonderful wound care team. The therapy team helped Ms. Walls get back up and moving on her feet and she was quickly released from therapy. Thanks to our wonderful Trevecca team, Ms. Walls will be able to discharge and head home to her family on September 30, 2019. We wish her the best of luck and thank her greatly for choosing to heal with our team.