Cedars-Sinai Health System and UCLA Health System are forming a partnership to open a 138-bed acute inpatient rehabilitation facility in the former Century City Hospital, Los Angeles.
The new hospital, expected to open in late 2015, will more than triple the capacity for inpatient rehabilitation in the community. The beds currently available for inpatient rehab—28 at Cedars-Sinai and 11 at UCLA Health—are usually full, the organizations said.
The increased capacity is expected to serve what they call growing needs in the community, as well as provide a place to treat nationwide referrals of complex rehabilitation cases for spinal cord and brain injuries, stroke, amputation, neurological disorders, and musculoskeletal and orthopedic conditions.
Cedars-Sinai and UCLA Health will contribute physicians, clinical staff and other resources to the facility, which they will own along with Select Medical Holdings Corp., which will operate the hospital. The Mechanicsburg, Pa.-based company operates 15 rehab hospitals, 108 long-term acute-care hospitals, and 997 outpatient rehab clinics across the country.
Select Medical launched similar ventures with Penn State Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center in 2010 and Baylor Health Care System, Dallas, in 2011.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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