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

Many of our clients come to Niagara Rehabilitation and Nursing Center with specific restorative goals that will permit them to return to the community or a lower level of care. Core services to our short-term residents are similar to those of our long term clients.

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:

For those patients who have experienced an acute illness or injury, NRNC is an important first step in the continuum of recovery. Clients usually remain in NRNC for a relatively short period of time – several days to several weeks, until their condition is stabilized and manageable in the home, or a predetermined treatment course is completed. NRNC’s short term program is tailored to meet each individual’s need in a professional and caring manner. Our approach is “holistic,” meaning that we coordinate treatment to meet all of an individual’s wellness needs, physical, emotional, and social needs. Working as a partner with the client, NRNC provides intensive rehabilitation services.

Clients are expected to achieve significant practical improvement by attaining those functional goals established by NRNC’s interdisciplinary team. Active participation on the part of the client is required and involvement of interested family members or friends is strongly encouraged.

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