Subacute and Rehabilitation 

Meadowbrook Healthcare's Subacute Program ?. The Bridge Between Hospital & Home.  The concept of Subacute Rehabilitation has developed at a time when Americans are living longer, healthier lives, reducing the need for continuous nursing care after an illness or injury. Our program offers a diversity of medical, rehabilitative, and therapeutic services at a level of care between acute care and traditional nursing care. Provided immediately after a hospital stay, it is delivered on an in-patient basis and is designed for individuals who require additional care prior to returning home.

Meadowbrook Healthcare's Subacute Program has been designated specifically for short-term stays and feature an all-nurse staff working in concert with a Dietician, Medical Directors, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists and other specialists trained in all aspects of physical, emotional and medical rehabilitation. Our individually tailored therapy and nutrition regimens focus on maximizing a patient's ability to lead an independent life. Our social workers and case managers work with the patient and family to ensure a safe and appropriate discharge back into the community.

Our state-of-the-art rehabilitative programs include the following:

REHABILITATION

PHYSICAL THERAPY:
Physical Therapy services consist of a variety of treatments intended to increase strength and mobility, and decrease pain and discomfort. Upon a written physicians orders, an evaluation, and treatment if appropriate, therapy needs are continually monitored and modified to provide optimum care to assist the resident in achieving his/her maximum rehabilitation potential.

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY:
Through Occupational Therapy, the resident and care givers learn which adaptive devices and aids will assist with self-care tasks and help them become easier to perform; such as transferring and positioning techniques that improve safety and reduce pain and ways to identify, reinforce and maintain self-sufficiency.

SPEECH THERAPY:
Speech Therapy services are provided by a licensed, certified Speech-Language Pathologist and prescribed by the attending physicians. All treatments are designed to help the resident improve and/or maintain communicative effectiveness and swallowing ability.

RESTORATIVE NURSING:
Restorative Nursing is the provision of services whereby each resident is provided the ability to increase functional levels of activities of daily living and to prevent complications associated with inactivity. Restorative Nursing includes: promoting proper body alignment, pressure sore prevention, range of motion exercises, use of self-help devices, promoting independence of activities of daily living, bowel and bladder retraining programs, and re-motivational activities.