Understanding Residential and Outpatient Post-Acute Rehabilitation
When an individual emerges successfully from acute care and sub-acute care, he or she enters the post-acute stage of care. The traumatic injury that required the care may have been any one or more of the following occurrences and caused a variety of deficits that require post-acute rehabilitation. The occurrences and results can include:
- A motor vehicle accident
- A traumatic amputation
- A brain injury such as a stroke
- A spinal cord injury
- A work-related injury
- Multiple trauma
- Neurologic disorders
- Cognitive disorders
- Speech disorders
- Inability to attend to or engage in activities of daily living
The goal of post-acute rehabilitation is to allow the individual to regain independence to the fullest extent of his or her physical and mental ability. That independence can be achieved only through the development of a plan that takes into account the goals, wishes and abilities of the individual in conjunction with his or her family. The achievement of independence also requires constancy, regularity, professionalism and surroundings that support achievement of the goal of achieving independence. That’s where NeuLife Rehab comes in. At NeuLife Rehab, good enough is not good enough.
Post-acute rehabilitation ideally begins in a residential setting such as NeuLife Rehab in Mount Dora, Florida. The residential post-acute rehabilitation offered to Clients of NeuLife Rehab is nothing less than innovative. Depending upon the catastrophic injury or trauma sustained, NeuLife Rehab provides a range of clinically relevant services. These include neurological services, neuropsychological services, physical therapy, speech therapy, cognitive therapy and a host of others. The goal, always, is to achieve for NeuLife’s Client a level of independence consistent with his or her physical and mental abilities allow.
NeuLife Rehab’s innovative program achieves successful, sustained outcomes leading to independence. Just like the residential post-acute rehabilitation at NeuLife Rehab, outpatient rehabilitation must consistently provide the highest standard of care in the delivery of clinically relevant services to achieve successful, sustained outcomes and to exceed the expectations of all persons served. Intermittent visits by outpatient therapists may result in significantly poorer outcomes when compared to those achieved by the innovative program at NeuLife. This conclusion is borne out by medical literature. A study reported in the Archives of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation found that individuals with traumatic brain injury who received residential-based post-acute rehabilitation displayed a statistically significant increase in functional abilities when compared with a home-based service group. More specifically, treatment subjects showed significantly greater improvement in motor skills and cognitive abilities[1].
Upon becoming a residential Client of NeuLife Rehab in Mount Dora, Florida, an individual undergoes a comprehensive, independent functional evaluation. It is conducted by a multidisciplinary team of professionals that include but are not limited to:
- Board Certified Neurologist
- Board Certified Behavior Analyst
- Board Certified Physiatrist
- Neuropsychologist
- Psychologist
- Board Certified Psychiatrist
- Speech Language Pathologist/Cognitive Therapist
- Physical Therapist
- Occupational Therapist
- Nurses
- Certified Rehab Counselor
The independent functional evaluation permits the development of a Client Goal Plan around which NeuLife Rehab’s innovative post-acute care is centered. Your goal is to become independent. Our expertise is to make that happen.
Proper and timely post-acute rehabilitation that may determine the difference between disability and independence is what NeuLife refers to as the “platinum post-acute period” — the crucial window following acute care that is needed to nurture the whole person to health with specialized, clinically relevant services.
NeuLife’s philosophy is that healing, wellness and personal fulfillment are best achieved in a positive and uplifting therapeutic environment where caring staff encourages, assists and supports each client so he or she may achieve specific goals. NeuLife believes personal fulfillment is equally as important as goals to achieve function and independence.
NeuLife, in Mount Dora, Florida, is an accessible residential post-acute program providing specialized rehabilitation to individuals diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), Amputations, Burns and other Catastrophic Injuries and Challenging Diagnoses.
2725 Robie Avenue
Mount Dora, Florida 32757
[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10206601
