The Rehabilitation Unit is a 25-bed comprehensive inpatient program designed to help persons adjust their lifestyles and accept physical limits caused by strokes, amputation, fractures and other limiting medical conditions. The unit's mission is to help each patient regain, to the greatest degree possible, his or her ability to function and be independent and self-sufficient. The staff is committed to providing a complete range of services using an interdisciplinary team that includes the patient, family, caregivers and significant others. Benefiting from these services are persons who are dealing with the effects of:

• Stroke
• Orthopedic conditions
• Arthritis
• Spinal cord injury
• Brain injury
• Amputation
• Neuromuscular disorders

We are JCAHO accredited, and our physicians, nursing staff and therapists are prepared to provide quality patient care management.

Admission Criteria
Patients can be referred and admitted to our Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit from home, an acute-care hospital or other facility. Prior to admission, patients are evaluated to assess whether intensive inpatient rehabilitation can be productive and helpful.

• Patient must be medically stable.
• Patient must have experienced a loss of functional ability (walking, bathing, dressing, eating, etc.) or somatic dysfunction (spasticity, paresis, etc.) and show potential for reasonable improvement.
• Patient must be able to tolerate a comprehensive therapy program at least five days per week, three hours a day, in at least two of the following areas:
  • physical therapy
  • occupational therapy
  • speech/language pathology (including cognitive and swallowing deficits)
• Patient must require medical supervision by a rehabilitation physician and 24-hour a day rehabilitation nursing care.
• Patient must 18 years or older. (Patients under 18 will be considered on an individual basis.)

Some patients are not candidates for treatment. We do not admit patients with a primary diagnosis of chemical addiction or patients with known or suspected suicidal intent.