 
UM Medical Center Opens Transitional Care Unit
UM Medical Center Opens Transitional Care UnitThe University of Maryland Medical Center has opened a new Transitional Care Unit for patients who no longer need inpatient care but who are still too sick to go home. The 23-bed unit, located at the Medical Center in downtown Baltimore, provides patients with skilled nursing services for post-surgical care, wound management, and antibiotic treatment."In keeping with the concept of transitional or subacute care, the Transitional Care Unit provides medical care for patients who no longer need the inpatient care of an acute hospital but who are unable to care for themselves at home," says Donald N. Joyce, vice president of University Post-Acute Care Services. "The Transitional Care Unit allows us to provide these patients the medical supervision they need while, at the same time, reducing the length and cost of stay in an acute care hospital." Patients cared for in the Transitional Care Unit are often those who have just had surgery, including cardiac, pulmonary, renal, transplant, vascular or general surgery. There are also elderly individuals who are too ill to care for themselves. Physical, occupational and speech therapy are also available. The new unit is now one of three transitional subacute units within University Post-Acute Care, part of the University of Maryland Medical System. At the William Donald Schaefer Rehabilitation Hospital at Kernan Center, there is the Transitional Rehabilitation Unit for patients recovering from stroke, fractures, multi-trauma injuries or orthopaedic surgery; and at Deaton Specialty Hospital, the Subacute Unit cares for medically complex patients who need intensive wound management, IV therapy, communicable disease care and rehabilitation. University Post-Acute Care is dedicated to providing patients with access to a comprehensive array of post-acute services to meet their needs through the recovery period. Other services include inpatient rehabilitation, home care and community-based outpatient therapy. The Transitional Care Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center opened October 1, 1996.
-Ellen Beth Levitt
Two New Members Elected to UM Medical System's Board of DirectorsWalter Rampata and R. Eugene Taylor have been named to the University of Maryland Medical System Board of Directors, which oversees a medical system that includes University Hospital, the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, the Greenebaum Cancer Center and Kernan and Deaton hospitals.
Pictured: Walter Rampata A 23-year veteran of Becton Dickinson & Co., Rampata has held numerous senior management assignments. He was most recently the Worldwide General Manager for the Primary Care Diagnostics Division and the Becton Dickinson AccuGlass Division in St. Louis, Mo. He became president of the consolidated North American Micro- biology business in 1996.
Pictured: R. Eugene Taylor A Florida native, Taylor joined NationsBank in 1969 in Charlotte, N.C., as a credit analyst. He rose through the company ranks and became manager of the North Central Florida Region in 1986. He was promoted to executive vice president in 1988 and became president of NationsBank of Florida in 1990. Taylor was named president of NationsBank Mid-Atlantic in November 1993.
-Ellen Beth Levitt
Shatner Treks to Baltimore for Treatment
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Rampata, who was elected to a five-year term, is president of
the North American division of Becton Dickinson Microbiology Systems
in Sparks, Md. Becton Dickinson & Co. is a worldwide leader
in infectious disease diagnostics, which include microbiology
products, diagnostic test kits and instruments used in the detection
of septicemia and tuberculosis.
Taylor, who was elected to a four-year term, is president of the
Mid-Atlantic Banking Group of NationsBank, which is responsible
for all banking operations in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and
Virginia. NationsBank has approximately 500 banking centers and
800 ATMs in this region.
