Physical Therapy focuses on identification, prevention and rehabilitation of individuals with physical impairment and pain. Following evaluation, your physical therapist will develop an individualized treatment program addressing the areas of lower extremity strength, balance, coordination, functional movement, ambulation, endurance and general mobility. The goal is to achieve safety in a variety of areas.

Areas of treatment focus may include:

• Increase motor control for those who have suffered a stroke

• Improve coordination, balance, and the ability to walk following a fracture

• Improve overall strength conditioning and endurance

• Pain management

• Teaching proper body mechanics to prevent injury

• Promoting safety awareness for the well-being of the resident

• Gait training

• Balance and coordination therapy

• Pre and post operative exercise programs

• Prosthetic training

• Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation

• Home assessments

• Community re-entry programs

• Bed mobility and transfer training

Occupational Therapy addresses activities of daily living skills. They assist those with impaired vision and/or hearing to function well in their environment. Occupational Therapy enables you to return home as independently as possible following an illness or injury. Our enhanced occupational therapy services include a full kitchen dedicated to occupation therapy training.

Areas of treatment focus may include:

Functional independence - eating, bathing, toileting, homemaking, cooking

• Maintenance of wellness - dressing, grooming

• Prevention of further disability- home assessments and modifications, adaptive equipment

• Increasing safety awareness

• Community reintegration

• Home assessments and modifications – including ordering of equipment

• Splinting

• Adaptive equipment and training

Speech/Language Therapists provide a continuum of services including assessment, education and treatment of those with communication, cognition and swallowing problems. Treatment programs are directed towards improving communication skills in the area of comprehension and expression. Patients / residents admitted to the facility that are receiving nutrition partially or exclusively via a gastrostomy tube are evaluated for their potential to return to solid foods as appropriate.

Speech therapists work to restore the following abilities:

• Increasing comprehension and verbal expression

• Improving speech and voice clarity

• Improving chewing and swallowing ability

• Maximizing cognitive language skills, like memory, problem-solving, and abstract reasoning

• Patient / resident and family / caregiver education and training for managing ongoing difficulties with communication, cognition, and swallowing.

Not Currently Offered.