AIKEN, S.C. — Aiken is getting a new inpatient rehabilitation hospital. PAM Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Aiken plans to start seeing patients on Nov. 17.
The hospital is at 4186 Incense Cedar Drive, just off Trolley Run Boulevard near the Highway 1 bypass. It has 42 private rooms and a therapy gym, and it will offer dialysis on site. Physical, occupational and speech therapists will work with patients recovering from strokes, brain and spinal cord injuries, heart attacks, amputations and serious illness. Patients who go home can come back for outpatient therapy.
Dr. Joan Hou is the medical director. The hospital also lists round-the-clock respiratory care with weaning protocols and complex wound care among its services.
The public can tour the building at a community open house from 5 to 7 p.m. on Nov. 10, which includes a ribbon cutting.
PAM Health is based in Enola, Pennsylvania, and runs more than 100 rehabilitation, long-term acute care and behavioral health hospitals, wound clinics and outpatient therapy sites in 23 states. The Aiken hospital’s main phone line is (803) 346-4788, and admissions can be reached at 803-346-5041.
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