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The HealthCare Center at West Meade Place is proud to provide a full-time Rehab department with a caring, creative and professional team of Therapists. Our staff consists of Geriatric specialists who understand the unique differences and co-morbidities within this population. Therapists are trained to recognize individual circumstances and the compensatory techniques needed for each individual. Therapist competencies and treatment plans address needs of the younger adult to the senior citizen.
Our Physical Therapy programs are designed to improve quality of life by promoting functional independence. Each program is customized to the resident’s unique needs to address goals of strength, endurance, balance and functional mobility skills. Programs consist of therapeutic exercises/techniques for strengthening, training in ambulation, balance, pain management, mobility and self-care, including the use of assisted devices as indicated.
Our Occupational Therapy programs are designed to increase functional ability with daily activities. Occupational Therapists encourage residents to perform their own self care and home management tasks with customized dressing, bathing, eating and energy conservation techniques. There are many types of adaptive equipment that can be utilized to maximize self-independence.
Our Speech Language Pathologists provide programs to help our residents with unique abilities achieve increased function with swallowing, communication and cognitive ability. With the therapist’s intervention, resident’s needs are met through diet modification and feeding techniques. Speech Therapists can provide compensatory techniques and training to assist residents with short-term memory problems.
Stroke (CVA) Program
More than 500,000 Americans suffer from strokes every year. Activities that was once easy to do often become very difficult or seem even impossible to do after a stroke. Problems often include: loss of sensation/numbness, weakness or loss of movement on one side of the body, visual disturbances, memory deficits and difficulty communicating and swallowing.
With the help of your physical, occupational and speech therapist you can maximize your recovery. Examples of therapeutic treatment may include the following:
- Re-educating the brain to work properly through exercise of both sides of the body to encourage the pathways in the brain to work properly
- Learning to dress, eat and bathe with adaptive equipment or techniques
- Exercise to improve movement in the joints and gain both strength and endurance
- Make recommendations to change the patient’s environment to improve safety, independence and comfort
- Teaching strategies to improve swallowing and communication
- Improving mobility with wheelchairs or walking
With optimism, determination and hard work, you and your rehabilitation team can maximize your recovery and life satisfaction.
Fall Prevention Program
Rehab, along with facility staff, plays a vital role in helping with the prevention of falls. Just as we can never predict when any of us may have an accident and fall, we cannot guarantee that a patient will never fall while a resident in our health center. However, through evaluation and standardized testing, our therapists can assist in determining a person’s risk for falls and develop a personalized program to decrease the risks of falling.
For those people who are restless and at a high risk for falls, we will recommend specific meaningful activities, which often reduce the opportunity for falls and assists in calming the restlessness. Our therapists and facility staff collaborate with patients and their families to establish a safe discharge plan and follow up measures based on the person’s ability at the time of therapy discharge.
Pain Management
Acute (sudden) and chronic (re-occurring) pain are symptoms that greatly limit one’s quality of life. Getting dressed in the morning may be difficult. Going on a walk with grandchildren may be impossible. Simply getting a good night’s rest seems unachievable.
What does one do when the efforts made to reduce pain just do not work? What if medications are causing unwanted side effects? What if the pain comes back too soon? There are other potential solutions. Our therapists are trained with other options to help manage pain. Our therapists work in collaboration with the nursing staff and physicians and are skilled in techniques to reduce and possibly prevent re-occurring pain. By using one or a combination of treatment approaches, individuals may experience relief after the first treatment.
Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Orthopedic injuries can be debilitating and painful-especially in the geriatric population. Our orthopedic rehab program is designed to maximize range of motion and strength, and decrease pain of affected joints. Our treatments are done with the goal of maximizing overall mobility and level of independence for daily living.
We serve people with diagnoses such as bone fractures (following surgical repair or conservative treatment), arthritis, and total joint replacement, to name a few. Through careful evaluation, our rehab therapists will develop a comprehensive individualized program to treat any orthopedic condition.
Patient & Family Education and Home Assessments
Prior to discharge from therapy, families and caregivers are educated on follow-up programs and recommendations to ensure maximum independence is maintained. If needed, the rehab staff will coordinate with the patient’s family to visit the patient’s home prior to discharge to assess any questionable obstacles that are difficult to duplicate in the health center.
Chronic Disease Management
Our Rehabilitation Department is committed to all residents and their needs. We work closely with the Nursing department to provide individual positioning devices to residents who require special needs. We have an active Screening Interventions Program, which determines if any functional changes have occurred which may indicate a need for Rehab Services. The Rehab department is available to help prevent and/or treat joint contractures that are often side-effects from many conditions.
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