It is the science of assisting our patients and residents improve their quality of life. We seek to restore, or maintain the daily life skills that help individuals to maintain their dignity and independence.

At the Department of Hospitals our rehabilitation program is specifically geared toward our elderly population.

Upon entering our facility, individuals are assessed by our rehabilitation professionals. Based on their findings, individual care plans are drawn up. The care plans, which are reviewed from time to time, identify specific rehabilitation programs including physical, occupational, speech and audiology.

Physical therapy focuses on helping our patients and residents regain strength and skills lost through stroke, heart attack, debilitating disease, operations or concurrent medical conditions.

Within Physical Therapy programs, we focus on balance, walking, strengthening, wound healing and pain relief.

What is Occupational Therapy?

Occupational therapy focuses on the science of daily living, assisting individuals in regaining skills to toilet, bathe, shave, groom and dress themselves.

We also help patients feed themselves through the use of adaptive equipment such as plates, cups, spoons, forks and knives.

We are very proud of our unique horticultural therapy program, which incorporates occupational therapy goals in the development of motor skills and coordination through germination and care of plants.

What other special therapies do you offer?

Our Wheelchair Seating clinic through custom modifications adapts wheelchairs to specific needs, helping the wheel chair bound to transfer in and out of bed, onto and off of commodes.

We offer speech therapy focusing on speech quality, swallowing and use of alternative communication devices.

Lee Silverman Voice Treatment specialized program focuses on assisting the neurologically impaired by helping with speech quality and volume; making it easier to communicate with visitors.

We also provide audiology therapy through hearing tests, hearing air recommendations and monitoring.

Through our Orthotic/Prosthetic Clinic, we provide braces. artificial limbs, splints and shoes; working with individuals to develop handling and operational skills.