What to Expect

Working Together: Your Rehabilitation Program

Our team comes together to help our patients regain as much mobility and independence as possible after an injury, illness or surgery

Before you arrive, our team will have reviewed your relevant medical records.
On day one, we’ll let you get settled in your room, then our team will do a comprehensive assessment of where you are now, develop goals for your stay with us, and a plan to achieve your goals. Depending on your situation, you might have goals such as:
- Improved balance and coordination
- Correcting swallowing problems
- Ability to move in bed or from one place to another
- Walking
- Ability to perform activities of daily living such as eating, grooming, dressing, bathing and homemaking
- Addressing cognitive/perceptual deficits or speech/language problems, in conjunction with physical limitations

Services

These services are structured to provide patients the skills they need to transition home and back to their community. Depending on your agreed goals, your plan will include at least two of the following of the following services, built into a program spanning a minimum of three hours of therapy a day, five days a week.

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
Visual/spatial assessments
Cognitive assessments
Splinting
Neuro re-education

Speech & Cognitive Therapy

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

Your progress will be re-evaluated at regular intervals during your stay with us and your plan and/or goals will be adjusted based on your progress.

When You’re Ready: Preparing for Discharge and Returning Home

A social worker will work with you and your care team to develop a comprehensive discharge plan. The plan covers continuing rehabilitation activities appropriate for your needs and capabilities, recommendations for setting up your home, including any specialized equipment you might need. Your plan also includes pre-scheduled appointments with your primary care physician and specialists.