Rutland Nursing Home, located on the campus of Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, operates a 466-bed, long- and short-term care facility. We have nursing, physical rehabilitation, comprehensive wound care and a specialty unit for ventilator-dependent residents. In contrast to free-standing nursing homes, we have a significant advantage in our ability to access the resources of our affiliated hospitals in support of resident care.
Rutland also has a dedicated 32-bed pediatric long-term care unit for children with severe developmental and metabolic disorders. The unit is staffed with nurses and pediatricians 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Medical care in Rutland Nursing Home is coordinated by physicians experienced and dedicated to pediatrics and geriatrics. Encouraging the residents to maximize their ability to lead active and fulfilling lives, licensed nurses provide optimal nursing care and therapists deliver state-of-the-art physical, occupational, recreational, and speech therapies.
Additionally, the Young Adult Post-Acute Care Unit at Rutland Nursing Home is a skilled nursing facility which provides comprehensive and integrative health care to residents, ages 18-35 years. We strive for the highest standards of treatment, utilizing an interdisciplinary and person-centered approach to caring for our residents. Compassionate Care. At Rutland, we believe in providing our young adult residents with normalized experiences and age-appropriate activities that cater to their development.
We specialize in providing care for medically fragile and complex children and young adults who are vent-dependent and in need of specialized respiratory services.
GERIATRIC SERVICES:
PEDIATRIC & YOUNG ADULT SERVICES:
Child Life Program: Our team of board-certified therapists and specialists support the holistic needs of our residents with a variety of individualized and age-appropriate therapeutic experiences such as: Creative Arts Therapy (Art, Music, Dance/Movement), Recreation Therapy and Chaplaincy/Pastoral/Spiritual services. Rutland also provides care for young adults with medically complex and neurological conditions. This includes residents who require specialized skin care, feeding, monitoring, vent/trach management and weaning, and palliative care.
Young Adult Life Program: Our team of board-certified therapists and specialists support the holistic needs of our young adult residents with a variety of individualized and age-appropriate therapeutic experiences such as: Creative Arts Therapy (Art, Music, Dance/Movement), Recreation Therapy and Chaplaincy / Pastoral / Spiritual services. Our gifted staff have been recognized as "Professionals of the Year" in Pediatric Long Term Care.
WATCH OUR PEDIATRIC & YOUNG ADULT LIVE ON PIX11!
Pix 11's Marysol Castro had the opportunity to visit our Rutland Nursing Home campus in Brooklyn to experience what our long-term care facility has to offer young residents.