Promise hospital is for wound care.

We had a friend who had to have a very large skin graft to the abdomen and was released from Shands to go to Promise. We visited him there many times and learned a great deal about the need for such specific hospitals.

He received very specific and innovative treatments for his slowly healing site and there were many protections that had to be followed for the safety of the patients and for the staff and guests too. I was very glad that our friend had such excellent medical help in such pleasant surroundings. It took him four months to recover entirely and after the crucial time was over at Promise he finished recovery in one of our rehab facilties.

Promise is a new-er hospital down Rainey Trail, I think it opened about three years ago. It is golf cart accessible.

This is the way that the mission of Promise Hospital was explained to me.
It seems a good place to volunteer.

"Promise is a Long Term Acute Care Hospital.
We have 40 beds, 8 of them are Intensive Care beds.
We have very sick patients who are acutely, chronically ill.
They have a length of stay of about 25 days which gives us time to get them well enough to either go home or to a rehab hospital.
We do provide rehab type care but are not a rehab hospital."

I actually took two Schnauzer's over to Promise to visit their owner who was there for 30 days and the CEO personally thanked me for bringing them in. Besides cheering up the patient, he said it also boosts the spirits of the entire staff. There are numerous ways to volunteer & spread cheer to those not feeling well.

A little off topic, but--

When I lived in northern Virginia, I participated in a volunteer program called "Pets on Wheels" to take pets to nursing homes. Both of my cats had a health test and a psychological test for the program. In the psych test they wanted to see how the cats reacted to be being pinched, a wheelchair stopping inches from them and someone dropping a tray near them. Both of my cats passed the testing, but Cocoa seemed nervous so he only went a couple of times.

Cheetah seemed to thrive on the nursing home visits and we went almost every weekend. He would sit on their laps and the residents loved it. We were a part of that program for a couple of years. They always remembered Cheetah's name but never mine!

Do they have such a program in Florida? My current cat, Torie, would be great!

A little off topic, and a lot late, but, on the issue of "for profits" needing volunteers, I was wondering why people volunteer for the Villages Lifelong Learning Center. They are a profit making business without any patients to cheer up!