The Value of Rehabilitative Care

There are many reasons for a doctor to send patients straight from the hospital to a rehabilitation facility including: surgery; injury; broken bones such as hips, backs, or knees; stroke; heart attack; and serious illness. Each of these ailments require both hospital care as well as rehabilitative care targeted towards the re-acquisition of basic life skills and abilities.

Our Rehabilitation Vision:

We understand each patient is pausing a lifestyle that is full of activities and purpose. Our rehab programs are designed to get each patient back on their feet in ways that are meaningful and familiar.

Once an injury or illness has occurred, treatment is the obvious priority. Fix the problem. Whether that’s a new hip, a round of antibiotics, or serious surgery, the immediate goal is to treat what ails us. But then what? After a traumatic physical event we are left weak, unable to carry out tasks that were once simple. If a patient has suffered a stroke, they may need to learn how to re-use an entire side of their body or possibly learn how to live with their new body, one that does not  function quite the way it did before. If a patient has a new hip or knee, they will need to slowly learn how to walk again. This may seem extreme but it’s very common – rehabilitation is a major part of any recovery process.

What many people don’t know is that rehabilitation comes in a variety forms. What we offer at Upland Rehabilitation & Care Center includes physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy.

Physical Therapy – targeted to develop, maintain, and restore maximum movement, strength, and functional ability.

Occupational Therapy – working to restore functional skills like sensory motor integration (these include the five classic senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste), coordination , and fine motor skills (small movements that occur in the hands, wrists, fingers, feet, toes, lips and tongue).

Speech Therapy – Rehabilitation treatment focused on improving speech, language, cognition, voice, and the ability to swallow.

In addition, our in-house rehab team customizes every therapy program to meet the individual needs of each resident. The rehab rooms are energetic with state of the art equipment to help get residents back on their feet as soon as possible.

Rehabilitation is not easy but the value is incalculable.

Active Lives = Healthy Lives

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!