While our facility specializes in short-term, rehabilitative care we also offer long-term care for high functioning residents, low functioning residents, and sub-acute residents needing specialized nursing. With this wide variety of care and specialization, there is a common thread that unites every resident: activities. While a patient’s day is often full, whether it’s meal time, medications and treatments, or therapy, there still exists within each day a certain amount of free time. While some patients choose this time to catch up on reading, television, or strolling through the facility and its grounds, many patients enjoy taking part in our daily activities. A calendar of events, posted boldly across an entire wall, lists all of the fun and entertaining activities available to patients of all functional levels.
What’s more exciting is the recent addition to our staff, Dulce Muller, as the new activities director! With knowledge and experience in this field, she already has some big plans for the activities department and hopes to not only create new and fun ways to engage residents but she hopes to encourage short-term, rehabilitation patients to become involved in more activities despite the fact that their stay may only last for a few weeks. Staying active and happy is an important part to any healing process and the Activities Department hopes to help that process along and make it fun.
In fact, by combining physical and occupational therapy treatments into weekly activities, patients are able to partake in fun events such as gardening, stationary bike riding, golf, arts & crafts, and more! This structured and productive activity schedule allows patients to build their strength, re-learn important skills, and grow closer to their rehabilitative goals while also enjoying themselves.
We are excited to welcome Dulce to our team and even more excited to see how the Activities Department will transform patient life for the better.
Stay tuned for more from the Activities Department as we’re sure there are many exciting things to come!
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