Please visit the virtual tour of the transitional care area at Ebenzer Ridges Care Center.
These pictures will include a 360 degree view of a typical resident room you would occupy while in rehabilitation, as well as a 360 degree view of the rehabilitation area where residents recieve their rehabilation therapy.

The Transitional Care Network care team:

KEN KEPHART, M.D. 
Fairview Geriatric Services
3400 West 66th Street, Suite 290
Edina, Minn 55435
(952) 836-3839

“My interest in older adults was sparked by a three-month rotation in medical school in Wales. In Britain, they began focusing on special services for older adults years before we did in the United States.”

Education and Training
Ken Kephart received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School. He completed his residency training at St. Paul Ramsey (Region’s Medical Center).
Experience
Kephart has been a practicing family physician for many years. He has combined practice with teaching residents and medical students for several years. Currently he not only provides care for Fairview Partners patients at Golden Living of St. Louis Park, he is also the medical director for Fairview Partners.
Licensure and Certifications
Kephart is board certified in internal medicine with a specialty in geriatrics.
Professional Associations
Kephart is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Medical Directors Association, American Geriatric Society, American Medical Association, Minnesota Medical Association and the Society of Teachers in Family Medicine.
Interests
Kephart’s personal interests include golfing and fishing.

ALISON LOOD, R.N., G.N.P.
Fairview Geriatric Services
3400 West 66th Street, Suite 400
Edina, Minn 55435
(952) 836-3839

“Providing care to geriatrics living in a skilled nursing facility is a great opportunity for enhancing preventative care and encouraging open communication with patients, families and all health care workers. I feel it is important to keep skilled nursing facilities as much as a home environment as possible with the added benefits of today’s modern medical advances.”

Education and Training
Alison Lood received both her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1999, and her Master of Science in Nursing in 2004, from the University of Minnesota.
Experience
Lood started as a nurse at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview, in the cardiac step-down unit in 1999. After two years she transferred to the medical intensive care unit. She also served as a float nurse and gained experience in the surgical and cardiovascular intensive care units as well as the bone-marrow and solid organ transplant units. Lood has been providing care to Fairview Partners patients as a gerontological nurse practitioner (GNP) since 2004. She currently sees patients in both the long term and short term rehabilitation setting at three metro nursing homes.
Licensure and Certifications
Lood is certified as a gerontological nurse practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
Professional Associations
Lood is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, a nursing honor society and the American Geriatrics Society.
Personal Interests
In her free time, Lood enjoys running, horseback riding and traveling.

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