Rehabilitation

Two seniors outside doing rehabilitation exercises with professionals.

We offer short-term physical, occupational, and speech therapy to address every aspect of rehabilitation, from walking with confidence to speaking clearly. This team specializes in helping patients recover from things like joint replacement, cardiac events, and stroke. Together, they help patients build strength, skills, and confidence to return to their highest level of function.

Physical Therapy

Our physical therapy team works to help residents reach their highest level of independence. Each patient is carefully evaluated before a physical therapist creates an individualized treatment program. Treatment takes place in a safe environment, with a focus on improving physical impairment and pain and preventing future injuries.

Areas of treatment may include:

  • Increasing strength and mobility
  • Increasing motor control after stroke
  • Improving coordination, balance, and the ability to walk following a fracture
  • Improving overall strength conditioning, range of motion, and endurance
  • Managing pain
  • Learning proper body mechanics to prevent injury
  • Promoting safety awareness

Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapists help residents master tasks essential for daily living such as bathing, dressing, eating, and using the bathroom. They also assist residents with impaired vision and/or hearing to function well in their environment.

Areas of treatment may include:

  • Functional independence: eating, bathing, toileting, homemaking, cooking, etc.
  • Maintenance of wellness: dressing and grooming
  • Prevention of further disability: home assessments and modifications, adaptive equipment
  • Increasing safety awareness

Speech Therapy

Speech therapists assess and help restore abilities in the areas of communication, swallowing, and cognition. Treatment programs are designed to help residents affected by stroke, brain injury, dementia, and other neurological disorders. Speech therapists also work with residents suffering from hearing impairment, respiratory illnesses, and complex medical conditions.

Areas of treatment may include:

  • Improving speech and voice clarity
  • Increasing comprehension and verbal expression
  • Improving chewing and swallowing ability
  • Maximizing cognitive language skills: memory, problem-solving, and abstract reasoning
  • Resident and family/caregiver education and training for managing ongoing difficulties with communication, cognition, and swallowing

Respiratory Therapy

Respiratory therapists evaluate and treat individuals who have trouble breathing or those with respiratory-associated illnesses such as asthma, pneumonia, emphysema, bronchitis, and sleep apnea.

Services include:

  • Oxygen
  • Nebulized Breathing Treatments
  • Ventilatory Assistance
  • Chest Physiotherapy
  • Breathing Exercises
  • Patient Education
  • Assistance with CPR
  • Airway Management