Routine Care

Transitional care occurs when a patient moves from one type of care to another. Broadly, this can include moving from one hospital unit to another, one specialty healthcare provider to another, or from one setting to another. California Transitional Care assists patients moving from one setting to another (from hospital to home).

In many ways, transitional care and a rehabilitation unit are similar. Transitional care providers offer many of the same services, such as physical therapy and occupational therapy. However, traditional rehab involves a short-term stay in a rehabilitation center, where transitional care provides a much wider scope of services for patients in their own homes who are transitioning to life outside of the hospital.

Many patients feel nervous about leaving the full-time care provided in a hospital, even if they are happy about being able to return home. Transitional care helps to ease those nerves and provides vulnerable patients with a safe transition from one type of care to another.

If you have recently had surgery and are discharged to go home, you may not be able to completely care for yourself or go right back to your level of previous activity. But you’re also not in a level of acute distress that would keep you hospitalized. Transitional care allows you to return home while having assistance in the form of wound care, dietary counseling, physical therapy, and anything else that’s needed to get you back to yourself without needing full-time care.