Services & Equipment

Services

Physical Therapy

  • Functional mobility: improve your gait, ability to navigate stairs, improve balance, practice transfers
  • Modalities to treat pain and skin breakdown
  • Neuro re-education
Occupational Therapy

  • Teach activities such as eating, grooming, bathing, and dressing
  • Community re-entry
  • Visual/spatial assessments
  • Cognitive assessments
  • Splinting
  • Neuro re-education
Occupational Therapy

  • Aphasia
  • Cognitive deficits
  • Dysphagia (swallowing disorders)
  • Dysarthria (difficulty pronouncing words)
  • Memory deficits and judgment impairment

Equipment

Watch Physical Therapist Sudha Shorian demonstrate the Indego® Therapy exoskeleton and how it’s helping patients accelerate their road to recovery. The state-of-the-art FDAapproved device to provides gait therapy, a type of physical therapy that improves a patient’s ability to stand and walk, for patients with lower extremity weakness.

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Internationally Accredited by the Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities International (CARF). Natividad is the only hospital in the area that is CARF-Accredited for Inpatient Rehabilitation Programs Hospital: Stroke Specialty Programs (Adults).

Top 10% of Rehabilitation Facilities by Uniform Data System (UDS). The ranking certifies that Natividad provides care that is effective, efficient, timely and patient-centered. Natividad ranked second in the nation out of approximately 900 rehab units for Overall Quality and Outcomes for Acute Rehabilitation Units by UDS.

Ranked 1st in Quality and Outcomes by Kindred Healthcare’s Acute Rehabilitation Centers evaluation. 88% of our patients transition back home following treatment.

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Sam Karas Acute Rehabilitation Center
Natividad
1441 Constitution Blvd.
Bldg 100
Salinas, CA 93906
(831) 755-5570