The Detroit News. Activities include golf and an obstacle course. Frank Hansinger lined up his golf shot. The putting practice Hansinger got at St. John was just one of several innovative, nontraditional activities at the hospital's Hip and Knee Center for surgery patients. The center's goal is encouragement and promotion of healing through group activities.
Patients spend relatively little time in their beds.
In fact, I wasn't allowed to go in and disturb my patients because I would be interrupting their golf game. The center, which offers hair-styling service and gourmet meals, has a marathon area, which consists of a row of cones, blocks and a portable stairway placed in the hallway of the center. Patients, who have no IV tubes with stands hooked up to them, are encouraged to be mobile the day after surgery. They take oral pain medication and go through three sessions of physical therapy a day. Although the length of patient's stay in the unit has been cut, the program didn't evolve as result of some need to get them out of bed as soon as possible.