Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital's Transitional Care Unit (TCU) is a Medicare certified post-hospital care unit for recovering patients no longer in need of the level of care provided in an acute care unit, but who still require close monitoring by skilled nursing personnel. The hospital-based skilled nursing unit provides short-stay post-hospital skilled care for adults who meet Medicare criteria.  The focus of this transitional level of care is to assist the older adult to achieve an optimal level of functioning.

Each Patient must be formally discharged from the hospital and admitted to the TCU. If the patient becomes acutely ill while in the TCU, upon physician orders, he/she will be discharged form the unit and readmitted to the hospital.

The patient's own attending physician may continue to provide care; however physician visits are generally less frequent.

Registered nurses will direct care twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

All hospital services such as physical therapy, occupational, radiology, respiratory therapy and laboratory are available.

It is anticipated that about 75% of the TCU patients will be discharged to home; the average length of stay is 15-30 days.