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REHABILITATION
Led by a dedicated team of physical, occupational, and respiratory therapists, our rehabilitated services are tailored to ensure resident success. Our rehab program, which also includes speech pathology, range from intensive one-on-one sessions to groups sessions to specifically-designed support groups.
In a nutshell, our rehabilitative offerings include:
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech and Language Pathology
- Breathe Easy, our integrated, inpatient pulmonary rehabilitation program
Poet's Seat Health Care Center provides in-house REHABILITATION for our short-term and long-term residents. Our rehabilitation therapists give each resident the highest quality therapy, and specialize in individualized occupational, physical and speech/swallow therapy five days a week.
We treat residents with various diagnoses including:
- Orthopedic-total hip replacements, total knee replacements
- Neurologic-Parkinson's, strokes, multiple sclerosis
- Cardiac-coronary artery bypass surgery, coronary artery disease
- Respiratory-pneumonia, CHF, COPD
Our emphasis for short-term residents is to maximize their safety and independence in order to be discharged home. Our long-term care goal is to achieve the resident's highest level of independence and to train members of the team for continuity of care.
The Poet's Seat therapy program includes:
- Community re-entry and home assessments
- Family and caregiver education
- Developing self care skills
- Gait, transfer, bed mobility and wheelchair mobility training
- Strengthening, range of motion, and balance activities
- Cognitive retraining
- Wound management
- Orthotic and prosthetic fitting and training
- Seating and positioning
- Speech/language therapy and use of communication aides
- Swallow retraining
- Utilizing adaptive equipment
- Modalities to treat pain, edema, wounds and contractures
- Sensory re-education
The rehabilitative therapy staff works integrally with our caring team that includes our residents and their families, our social workers, nurses, doctors and activities staff, to ensure the best quality care is given. Together, we are able to achieve the residents' potentials and strive to discharge them to the safest environment possible.
For a complete list of all of our services, please visit our Skilled Care page.
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