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NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE | Rehabilitation Services | Acute Rehabilitation Unit
Acute Rehabilitation Unit
This 14-bed inpatient unit at Evergreen Hospital provides intensive rehabilitation in a facility that simulates the home environment. This ensures that patients return home with the rehabilitative training and family education necessary to deal with debilitating diseases.
Typical patients include those who had had:
- Strokes
- Multiple traumatic injuries after a car accident
- Spinal cord injury
- Non-traumatic spinal cord injury
- Acute peripheral neurologic illnesses such as Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Congestive heart failure or heart attack
- Respiratory illness and weakness after prolonged hospitalization or use of a ventilator for extended periods of time.
Generally, acute rehab patients need to be in a closely monitored setting while they receive both rehabilitation and medical follow-up. There is a close collaboration between the rehabilitation therapists and the ARU nursing staff, so they are able to work together to define the best treatment regimen for each individual patient.
Criteria for Acute Rehabilitation
- A patient needs to have a condition that requires treatment by more than one therapy discipline (Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy or Neuropsychology) and must be able to perform a minimum of three hours of therapy a day.
- A patient has to require the close monitoring of a hospital during rehabilitation versus a skilled nursing facility or other setting where physician visits are less frequent. If a patient needs to be seen by a physician multiple times a week, they really belong in the Acute Rehab Unit rather than a skilled nursing facility.
For more information, or to inquire about a referral, please call 425.899.2545.
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