INTRODUCTION: Barlow Respiratory Hospital (BRH) is a 105-bed, not for profit, long-term acute care (LTAC) hospital serving chronically critically ill (CCI) and complex patients transferred from the ICUs of hospitals in southern California Herein, we report patient characteristics of our first series of COVID-19 survivors admitted to the post-acute venue of an LTAC METHODS: Single-center descriptive report of patients recovering from acute infectious complications of COVID-19 pneumonia The Barlow performance improvement database and transferring hospital documentations were queried for selected patient demographics, admission characteristics, diagnoses, and co-morbidities RESULTS: From 4/28/2020-7/7/2020, 30 post-COVID patients admitted to BRH All tested negative for COVID-19 prior to transfer Pre-morbid location home: 63% Ethnicity: 47% Caucasian, 30% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% African American Acute care course: 90% mechanically ventilated, 43% ARDS, 43% sepsis, 63% AKI/ARF, 37% heart failure COVID-19 risk factors: 60% type 2 DM, 73% HTN, 33% CAD, 33% HLD, 47% BMI ≥ 30 On BRH admission: age 74 5 [44-99] years, 60% male;length of stay at transferring facility 40 [8-77] days;73% with pressure injury ≥ stage 2, 47% with multiple pressure injuries;30% on hemodialysis, 80% with tracheostomy, 53% on mechanical ventilation, 80% with feeding tube, 47% with central line, 33% with indwelling urinary catheter Lab: Mean (SD): Hematocrit 30 2% (5 9), Albumin 2 9 g/dl (0 59), BUN 41 8 mg/dl (27 4), Creatinine 1 7 mg/dl (2 1), Glucose 143 mg/dl (50 6) CONCLUSIONS: This is the first report to characterize post-COVID patients transferred to an LTAC Patients are largely elderly, with known risk factors, spent an average 6 weeks in ICU, with mechanical ventilation via tracheostomy Overall, these early findings suggest that these CCI patients will continue to require considerable medical interventions and treatments, owing to the numerous sequelae of the infection, and the burden of acute-on-chronic diseases As ICU survival rates improve, this survey further emphasizes the important role of LTAC in responding to the COVID-19 crisis LTAC hospitals not only relieve acute care hospitals from the enormous patient burden but also provide high-level care for complex chronic medical conditions caused by COVID-19