St. Barnabas Nursing Home offers specialized rehabilitation services to individuals in order to improve and maintain physical function, independence, and overall quality of life. Licensed physical and occupational therapists provide short-term and long-term rehabilitation services to residents, including those who are geriatric, ventilator dependent, have HIV/AIDS, and/or registrants who participate in the Adult Day Care Program.

Goals of the Rehabilitation Program:

• Restoration of function

• Teaching of compensatory strategies for the management of disability

• Prevention of further limitations from the secondary effects of a medical condition

• Maximization of functional abilities to improve overall quality of life.

Physical Therapy Services:

• Evaluation of needs initiated within 24 hours of admission to St. Barnabas Nursing Home

• Key member of the interdisciplinary team and plan of care

• Ambulation and gait training to improve walking and mobility

• Transfer training to improve movement from one surface to another

• Strengthening, endurance training, and general conditioning

• Pain management

• Wound care and management

• Community re-entry skills training

• Resident and family/caregiver education

Occupational Therapy Services:

• Evaluation of needs initiated within 24 hours of admission to St. Barnabas Nursing Home

• Key member of the interdisciplinary team and plan of care

• Self-care skills training

• Wheelchair mobility training

• Cognitive/perceptual training to improve orientation, memory, and problem solving

• Transfer training for tub/shower and toilet

• Upper extremity strengthening and conditioning

• Pain management

• Community re-entry skills training

• Resident and family/caregiver education

Short-Term Rehabilitation Program:

• Targets individuals who have been discharged from the acute hospital setting and continue to require intensive rehabilitation services for a limited period of time in order to return to the community environment.

• One-to-one treatment provided by physical and occupational therapy 5 – 6 days per week, 30 – 60 minutes per session.

• Length of stay may be from 2 weeks to 3 months.

• The overall goal of this program is to maximize the functional abilities of the individuals admitted so that they may return to and resume their lives in the community.

Long -Term Rehabilitation Program:

• Targets residents who require less intensive rehabilitation in order to maximize their functional ability in the nursing home setting.

• Both restorative and maintenance programs are available.

• Restorative, one-to-one treatment provided by physical and/or occupational therapy 5 days per week, 30 minutes per session.

Adult Day Care Rehabilitation Program:

• Targets registrants who require rehabilitation services to improve their physical function in order to remain in the community.

• Restorative, one-to-one treatment provided by physical and/or occupational therapy 2 - 3 days per week, 30 minutes per session.

• Treatment provided on-site.