Provides special care for those patients with illnesses involving the heart, lungs, and other intensive medical complications. When your physician recommends physical therapy treatments to help speed your recovery, an attendant will call for you at your scheduled time of treatment and will return you to your room when the treatment has been completed. A registered physical therapist will give, or will supervise, your treatments in physical therapy. The department also participates in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, provides pulmonary function testing and administers oxygen with the physicians prescription. All services are performed at the direction of the patients physician.
Services are available on an outpatient or inpatient basis.
Speech Pathology Diagnostic evaluations and therapy are offered on physician referrals by a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist certified by the American Speech and Hearing Association. Disorders of articulation and language, voice and fluency are treated as well as loss speech-language due to stroke or traumatic brain injury. Occupational Therapy Occupational Theray provides services aimed at helping persons whose function is impaired by physical illness, injury, developmental disorder and the aging process. Among occupational therapy's advantages are helping to increase mobility, strength and endurance for adults, and for children, encouragement for normal development and early learning. Stroke or head-injured patients are trained through adaptive devices to dress, feed and bathe themselves and to relearn basic hygiene skills.