Ascension Sacred Heart - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility

When you choose Ascension Sacred Heart - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility, you’ll benefit from a multidisciplinary approach, combining the expertise of a team of healthcare professionals with advanced training in rehabilitation medicine. The most important members of this team approach will be you and your family during your recovery process.

We offer specialty care for the following conditions:

• Amputation care and prosthetic fitting
• Brain injury
• Neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), Guillain-Barre' syndrome (GBS), Parkinson's disease, Polyneuropathy, and other neurodegenerative conditions.
• Orthopedic injuries and post-surgical repair
• Pulmonary Disease, End-Stage Renal disease, and severely impaired cardiac conditions who qualify for intensive rehabilitation services.
• Spinal cord injury and impairment
• Stroke

Personalized care for your rehabilitation needs

Our dedicated team of doctors and rehabilitation experts will guide your care from admission to discharge. We offer convenient on-site medical specialist consultations, diagnostic testing, and procedures through our hospital based rehabilitation service.

During your stay, you will benefit from:

• A focus on community re-entry and comprehensive home safety assessments
• An individualized treatment plan with three hours of intensive therapy daily
• Emphasis on discharge planning, family education, treatment for psychosocial adjustment following physical and mental impairment.
• We offer fully private patient rooms alongside specialized bariatric accommodations

We offer the following rehabilitation services as part of our comprehensive care:

Physical therapy:

• Durable medical equipment evaluation
• Gait and transfer training
• Neurological rehabilitation to improve movement, cognition, vision, behavior, and other functional impairments.
• Strength, mobility, and balance training.

Occupational therapy:

• ADL Retraining
• Custom Seating and Positioning Evaluation
• Custom splint fabrication
• Home environment simulation training
• Neurological rehabilitation to improve movement, cognition, vision, behavior, and other functional impairments

Speech therapy:

• Cognitive rehabilitation
• Communication and voice disorder therapy
• Dysphagia (swallowing disorders) rehabilitation
• Fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) test
• Modified barium swallow exam
• VitalStim® therapy and NMES

A team of supportive rehabilitation specialists

Whether you’re recovering from an illness or an injury, we’re here for you. Specialists at Ascension Sacred Heart - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility provide compassionate care for your rehabilitation needs. Our team focuses on improving your emotional and physical health and involves your family or caregiver team for daily support to create a care plan personalized to your specific needs. Your team may include:

• A medical director is a doctor trained in rehabilitation who will coordinate your overall treatment program.
• Rehabilitation nurses provide round-the-clock nursing care and can help answer questions you and your family may have.
• Physical therapists will teach you exercises to improve your balance, strength and mobility. They may also help you learn how to use walkers and canes, braces, artificial limbs or other mobility devices.
• Occupational therapists focus on improving your everyday living skills, including bathing, dressing, grooming and eating.
• Speech therapists work to improve your ability to communicate, problem-solve and reason, and address any problems with swallowing.
• Case managers will explain the details of your stay and outline any lifestyle changes you may expect. In addition to working with you and your insurance company to certify your ongoing rehabilitation, your case manager will coordinate your discharge needs.
• Your rehabilitation care team may also include a dietitian, pharmacist, respiratory therapist, and other specialists.

Your therapy sessions and activities will be posted daily on a schedule board. Your doctor will continue to follow your progress and remain in charge of your medical care.

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