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Article: Indianapolis Specialty Hospitals Provide Lengthy Near-Constant Treatment.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- August 4, 2000
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Aug. 4--Pamela J. Bola went under the knife at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis last summer to have a thymus tumor removed.
She thought she'd be hospitalized a week or so.
Instead, she became what's euphemistically known in health care as an "unusual" patient.
She developed blood clots in her lungs and "I guess I almost died," she said.
After a seven-month hospital ordeal, most of it on a ventilator that did her breathing for her, Bola, 47, is back on the job at the court-reporting service she owns.
She says she owes her recovery to a niche business she never heard of before she ended up there: a long-term acute care ...