Acute Rehabilitation Unit

Inpatient treatment provides opportunity for recovery like no other outpatient or skilled nursing facility can offer.

• Regaining strength
• Improving mobility
• Performing activities of daily living independently
• Returning home if possible

 

What is Acute Rehab?

Patient advantages

Individualized Treatment

Who we Serve

Teamwork

Facilities

Referrals

Payment methods

Medical Director - Dr. Randy Buck
Program Director - Cheryl Watson

Case Coordinator - Jason Burchett

What is Acute Rehab?

Hunt Regional Medical Center's inpatient Acute Rehab includes:

• An interdisciplinary team of professionals
• Team approach to maximize the individual's recovery and functional status
• Physical, occupational and speech therapy six days a week
• Licensed physical, occupational and speech therapists
• A minimuml of 3 hours of therapy a day
• 24-hour nursing care
• Returning home is always the desired goal
• Homelike “Activities of Daily Living” to help prepare for return home
• Home evaluation for safety and physical challenges
• Weekly team conferences
• Patient and family training
• On-site pre-admission screening
• Admission can be from hospital, home or other facility
  

Patient advantages

Acute Rehabilitation admission can have many advantages for patients including:

• Shorter hospital stay
• Significantly better and longer lasting outcomes
• Return to home
• Cost savings
  

While the costs per day of Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities are considerably higher than those of a lower level of care, the significantly shorter lengths of stay serve to reduce the per episode costs of care.

Studies suggest that more IRF patients are likely to go home than remain in an institutional setting (approximately 81% as opposed to 45%) and that any potential cost savings from the less expensive setting may be mitigated.

Individualized Treatment

The events that bring patients to us change their lives forever.

We work closely with every patient to help them regain all that they can to resume functional daily living. Our patients will work hard, but the effort will be worth it. We keep our patients focused on their recovery goals.

Because each person is unique, our dedicated team individualizes every patient’s care, taking into consideration that everyone has different needs and progresses at a different pace.

At Hunt Regional Healthcare, we are dedicated to helping patients get past the hurdles and
back to their lives—returning to work, family, active retirement, or independent living.

Who we Serve

Rehabilitation greatly benefits patients who experience difficulties in the following areas:

• Limitations in self-care
• Impaired mobility, balance, and coordination
• Limitations in joint strength and motion
• Changes in memory, thought processing, reasoning, and rational thinking
• Speech and communication problems
• Swallowing disorders

These functional difficulties may be the result of

• Stroke
• Hip fractures
• Some forms of arthritis
• Amputations
• Neurological disorders (multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, muscular dystrophy)
• Major multiple trauma
• Spinal cord injury
• Brain injury

Success Begins with Teamwork

The Acute Rehabilitation Unit implements a team approach offering:

• Physical therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Speech therapy
• Social work
• 24-hour rehabilitation nursing care under the direction of a medical director who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation

Other special services such as psychology and prosthesis training are available based on the need of each patient.

Working with each patient and their family, the team designs a highly individualized treatment plan which focuses on potential, not on limitations. This progressive approach strives to meet the needs of everyone involved in the rehabilitation process – patients and family members.

Our goal is to help patients get back to life, family, and friends as quickly as possible.

Facilities

The Unit offers comfortable, spacious private rooms designed to maximize each patient’s rehabilitation potential.

Therapy areas are conveniently located on the Unit.

To Make a Referral

Referrals can be initiated by physicians, patients and their families; discharge planners; and allied health professionals.

We invite you to contact the Program Director at the Acute Rehabilitation Unit to discuss our services, code of ethics, mission, and philosophy as well as to arrange a tour of the unit.

Our Program Director or Case Coordinator will contact you immediately about the viability of admission for your referral. They can tell you if your patient has the potential for admission based on their diagnosis and functional need. Together we can help your patient recover and achieve as much independence as possible.

If you believe a patient may benefit from our services, please phone us. A member of our staff will perform a screening at no charge. If it is determined that the patient is not a candidate for inpatient rehabilitation, alternate resources will be discussed.

Methods of Payment

Medicare–Your stay on the Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit may be covered completely or in part by Medicare. Medicare compliance guidelines

Standard federal rules relating to your individual available hospital days apply. Our Case Coordinator will be able to explain your coverage and tell you what your benefit will be.

Private–Insurance and managed care payments are based on contractual agreements between the hospital and each provider. Our Case Coordinator will advise you of your payment options and work with your insurance company to help you understand coverage and limitations set forth by your insurer.

Call today at 903-408-1737 or 903-408-1740.