Success Stories

At Kindred Healthcare, our hard work and efforts are rewarded daily by the patients and residents we serve. Not only are we thanked in person on a regular basis, we receive countless letters, poems and artwork showing appreciation. This story is representative of many we receive. For letters received by this facility, contact the admissions director. 

From a Kindred Hospital Patient

I was very fortunate after having acute respiratory failure to become a patient at Kindred Hospital South Florida - Coral Gables for two months during March and April 2009.  I was connected to a respirator/ventilator through my trachea and some doctors thought that I was to remain like that permanently. It was because of the excellent care and guidance that I received from absolutely all personnel at your hospital that I can write this letter from home and am now breathing perfectly on my own. Every single person that worked at your hospital gave of themselves more than 100 percent and you could tell they were truly sincere in their care and compassion. You have to be one of the best, if not the best, hospital in the nation and I am glad that throughout my catastrophic illness, I was lucky enough to come across your hospital.

Ester M.

Teresa's Successful Recovery

The staff and administration at Kindred Hospital South Florida -Coral Gables are celebrating another patient’s recovery and successful discharge.

Teresa, 34, came to us in January following a PEG tube replacement at a local short-term hospital. Last October she was in a motor vehicle accident which rendered her comatose, with a PEG and trach on a ventilator.

With the support of her family and intensive hospital care she began to respond and to make amazing progress day by day. In February she was discharged - totally awake and alert, decannulated, eating on her own, able to transfer from bed to chair, standing and walking with a hemi-walker, and performing most of her activities of daily living with minimal help.