Alabama-Based Health System Expands into Eagleville with Rehab Hospital

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The Encompass Health 50-bed rehab hospital coming to Eagleville will specialize in physical, occupational, and speech therapies.

Encompass Health plans to build 50-bed inpatient rehab hospital on Audubon Road in Eagleville. Jeff Ward, WFMZ 69 News, exercised his journalistic skills to cover this entrant the area’s healthcare industry.

The 50-bed hospital — located just northwest of traffic’s famed St. Gabe’s Curve on Rt. 422 — will serve patients recovering from strokes and other neurological disorders, brain and spinal-cord injuries, and amputations and orthopedic conditions.

Encompass said in a statement that the hospital will provide physical, occupational, and speech therapy.

All rooms at the new hospital will be private, and it will include a gym for therapy.

“This new hospital will allow even more residents to received specialized care close to home,” Pat Tuer, commented president of the Encompass northeast region.

No specific opening date was provided. When opened, the hospital will be the business’ tenth healthcare facility in Pa.

According to the company statement, Encompass is the largest owner and operator of rehabilitation hospitals in the U.S., with 152 hospitals in 36 states and Puerto Rico.

More on Encompass Health and its Montgomery County expansion are at WFMZ 69 News.

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