What Is Inpatient Rehabilitation? - Franciscan Health Podcast
Channel: Franciscan Health
Date: 2024-03-28

Inpatient rehabilitation is a intensive, personalized, customizable rehabilitation program for someone who's suffered a serious injury, trauma, or illness that affects their function, their daily functioning. It affects their ability to do their daily activities such as bathing and dressing, their mobility and walking, or even their cognition and swallowing, for their thinking skills, their memory, attention, concentration, problem solving.

Franciscan Physician Network physician Sachin Mehta, MD, leads a discussion focusing the many benefits of inpatient rehab in the Franciscan Health DocPod podcast.

Topics include:
✔️ What is inpatient rehabilitation?
✔️ What types of patients qualify to receive care from an inpatient rehabilitation program?
✔️ When a patient has the option to select the inpatient rehabilitation center they would like to receive care from, what types of things should they be looking for?
✔️ How often to patients need to continue outpatient rehabilitation after being discharged from an inpatient rehabilitation unit?
✔️ What advice would you give to patients who find themselves needing inpatient rehabilitation to give them the best opportunity for recovery?

Resources from Franciscan Health:
▶️ Rehab Programs At Franciscan Health
https://www.franciscanhealth.org/community/blog/rehab-programs-franciscan-health-indiana-illinois

Listen to the Franciscan Health DocPod podcast:
https://www.franciscanhealth.org/podcasts✔️