Inpatient Rehabilitation



St. Francis offers comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation in a 19-bed unit for those recovering from strokes, neurological disorders, head and spinal cord injuries, amputations and musculoskeletal diseases and injuries.
 
 

Treatments


St. Francis Inpatient Rehabilitation treats patients with a wide range of diagnoses, including but not limited to: 
  • Amputation
  • Arthritis
  • Congenital deformities
  • Debilitation after illness, injury or surgery
  • Disorders associated with aging
  • Head trauma
  • Heart and lung disorders
  • Hip and other fractures
  • Major multiple trauma
  • Neurological disorders
  • Spinal cord injuries
  • Stroke
Patients are treated by a team of professionals that provide: 
  • Physician services
  • Recreational therapy
  • Rehabilitation nursing services
  • Occupational therapy
  • Physical therapy
  • Psychological services
  • Social work/case management
  • Speech therapy/dysphagia treatment


Easy Street


To help patients regain as much independence as possible, therapists utilize Easy Street Environments™. Easy Street is a simulation of community and business settings, which allows patients to practice negotiating a car, a restaurant, a grocery store and a bank before they actually return home.
 

 

Rehab Candidates


Patients with the following limitations may be candidates for St. Francis Inpatient Rehabilitation: 
  • Lack of ability to feed, bathe, dress and groom self
  • Inability to understand and express written or spoken language
  • Lack of ability to swallow properly and safely
  • Lack of ability to walk or be otherwise mobile within a home or community setting
  • Lack of ability to move about in bed; or get in and out of bed
  • Lack of job-seeking skills
  • Disturbed thought processing
  • Inappropriate social behaviors
  • Lack of ability to perform leisure activities






 

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