Short Term Rehabilitation
Niagara Rehab has a comprehensive rehabilitation program that is designed to maximize clinical outcomes for those clients with complex rehabilitation needs. The specific goal is returning one as quickly and safely as possible. Our professional interdisciplinary team consists of outstand physicians, nurses, therapists and social workers. We work together with our clients to develop an individualized plan of care that meets their unique physical, emotional and social needs. However, from their admission into the facility, a team approach to discharge planning begins and continues throughout the client’s stay. When the time comes to leave NRNC, short term clients and their families have skills, assistance, and resources for a successful return to community life.N
Some of our services include:
- Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapies
- Patient and family education
- Home screening
- Facilitation of home care, equipment acquisition, or alternate level of care placement
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Summary of Admission Criteria:
Clients who would benefit from the short term restorative services at NRNC are those who:
- Have experienced a recent debilitating illness, and have the medical potential to benefit from short-term rehabilitation, such as stroke or orthopedic surgery
- Have a progressive chronic illness that requires training or retraining in adaptive techniques before returning home
- Have been recently discharged from an acute care setting and require additional skilled nursing care and/or retraining before returning home
- Have post-surgical conditions and require further medical/nursing intervention, or who need to learn self-care procedures for managing in the home
- Have a reduction in self-care abilities and/or mobility due to a recent acute event
- Have a new disability that complicated an existing disorder
- Have multiple impairments that individually do not present a significant problem but in combination result in a significant disabilities
- Require pain management
- Require wound management to facilitate the wound healing process
Individuals considered for admission to NRNC usually meet the following criteria:
- Individuals with medically manageable conditions who meet the skilled care criteria as determined upon review by the Admissions Committee; and
- with a realistic discharge plan that has been agreed upon by the patient and the family prior to admission to or shortly after the time of admission.
Comprehensive Programs & Services
Functional Limitations
- Arthritic Conditions
- COPD
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Multiple Trauma
- Post-Surgical Conditions
- Respiratory Failure
Orthopedic Conditions
- Amputations
- Degenerative Joint Disease
- Fractures
- Joint Replacements
Hospital Diversion Programs
- DASH: Direct Admit and Safely Home
Neurological Limitations
- CVA Stroke
- Dysphasia/Aspiration
- Parkinson's Disease
- Neuromuscular/Neurogenic Disease
Therapeutic and palliative Skilled Nursing Services
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Oncology
- Pain Management
- Ultrasound
- IV Therapy
- Wound Care