The Rehabilitation Team
The rehabilitation process begins by setting goals with the patient and their family. These goals help to shape a treatment plan designed to improve the patient’s physical, perceptual, and communication abilities, while developing skills to compensate for any permanent disability. The health care team includes: 

• Physiatrists (physicians specializing in rehabilitation medicine) provide patient care and leadership to the treatment team. 
• Rehabilitation nurses monitor the patient’s health status, reinforce the skills patients learn in therapy and provide patient education.
• Physical therapists help patients improve balance, coordination, strength, flexibility and mobility. 
• Occupational therapists help patients perform activities of daily living, gain strength, skills and confidence.
• Speech pathologists help patients improve swallowing function, communication skills, comprehension, expression, reading, writing, memory, and problem solving. 
• Our social worker helps the patient and family to develop a discharge plan, identify community resources, and assist with insurance companies to ensure optimal benefit coverage. 
• Psychologists work with patients and their families to manage behavioral, emotional, and cognitive changes that affect self-confidence and relationships following a stroke.
• Registered Dietitians providing nutritional support.

This unique group of practitioners addresses each patient’s individual needs and help provide each patient with integrated medical and therapeutic treatments, individually tailored to address the type and severity of disability.  

The staff will make recommendations based on the patient’s needs for equipment, such as a walker or a cane, wheelchair seating, or bathroom needs to maximize their independence with functional mobility. Prior to discharge, the staff may also perform a home assessment, taking the resident and a family member to the home to evaluate the environment and ensure safety within the home.

The Family's Role
Family participation is extremely important in the rehabilitative process.  After instruction from the rehabilitation team, family members are encouraged to assist in the patient’s care and participate in therapy sessions.  Each therapy plan includes a system of support and encouragement for the patient’s family.