Inpatient Rehabilitation

Inpatient Rehabilitation

Our state-of-the-art rehabilitation center offers a complete line of services that are tailored to meet our patients' unique recovery needs. Our program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), enhancing our commitment to effective care for people with disabilities. CARF is an outside organization that surveys rehabilitation programs, awarding three-year accreditation to those facilities meeting or exceeding their high quality standards; we have received back-to-back certifications since 1989.

Admission Criteria

A patient in need of acute rehabilitation on an inpatient basis requires the following:

  • 24-hour physician availability
  • 24-hour rehabilitation nursing
  • An intensive level of therapy including at least 2 of the 3 services of physical therapy, occupational therapy and/or speech therapy
  • Ability to participate in and tolerate 3 hour of therapy per day at least 5 days per week.
  • Require an interdisciplinary approach to their deficits.
  • Medically stable
  • Age 14 or older
  • Expectation of practical improvement in a reasonable period of time
  • A reasonable expectation of their return to the community.
  • Responsive to verbal or gestural stimuli with clinicians consistently.
  • Willingness to participate in the program consistently
  • Have a defined plan for return to the community with appropriate support for post-discharge destination
  • Have a medical issue that requires physician followthrough that cannot be provided in a lower level of care

Transfer Criteria

Patient must be:

  • Medically unstable, which prevents them for completing the plan of care
  • Unable to participate with new restrictions that would keep them in bed for greater than 72 hours

Discharge Criteria

  • Patient has met goals defined by the interdisciplinary team.
  • Progress for goals has slowed or stopped.
  • Patient is medically unstable to participate in the program.
  • Patient has behaviors that prevent them from achieving goals.
  • Patient is unwilling to participate in the program.
  • The expectation for return to the community has changed to a lower level of care, (i.e. nursing home).

Patients with Spinal Cord Injuries

Our Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit can accept patients with spinal cord injuries at most levels. Patients with spinal cord injuries at the cervical level of C4-5 with some shoulder movement may be accepted if their injury allows recovery.

Patients with a spinal cord injury at the C4 level and above will have function that may require ventilators and/or environtal control units. We are unable to accomodate these patients on our unit, so a patients their families should choose an alternate facility that is better suited to meet their individual needs.