The SFGH Skilled Nursing Facility (aka 4A) provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation care to our patient population. Though it is physically a part of SFGH, 4A is actually an outpatient unit. The average age of 4A patients is 50, and average length of stay is approximately two weeks. The most common indications for SNF care include continuation of IV antibiotics, wound care, and short-term rehabilitation.

The staff's deeper mission is to provide a holistic and interdisciplinary model of care, addressing our patient's needs for healing and recovery from a bio-psychosocial and spiritual level. We try to maintain an atmosphere on 4A of acceptance, community, compassion, and encouragement. Through regular contact with caring staff from multiple disciplines—family practice, nursing, rehabilitation, nutrition, social work, and activities—4A patients return to a level of independent function, and many patients regain a sense of community, self-respect and purpose.