Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Services

Outpatient Rehabilitation Program 

Our Outpatient Rehabilitation department offers specialized treatment plans to help patients achieve maximum gains to return to everyday function. Many of the patients we treat have transitioned home from the hospital or have been referred by their primary care physician.

Outpatient Therapy Services

Outpatient Physician Clinics

Inpatient Rehabilitation Program

We offer both physician and therapy services for patients admitted to the hospital who have rehabilitation needs.

Inpatient Rehabilitation

• The 24-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit is located on the 17th floor of the hospital.
• We provide inpatient rehabilitation care to meet the specialized needs of patients age 13 and up who are recovering from traumatic brain injuries, multiple trauma and other complex orthopedic and medical conditions, spinal cord injuries, burns, arthritis, neurological disorders and other conditions that may leave the patients impaired. We provide inpatient rehabilitation care to patients with burn injuries age 10 and over.
• Patients admitted to the inpatient rehabilitation floor are treated by a team of professionals including rehabilitation physicians, nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, recreational therapists, patient care technicians, psychologists, dietitians, orthotist/prosthetists, respiratory therapy, social workers and case managers.
• Ongoing caregiver/family training is provided to prepare you for your discharge home. Information may be needed in regards to your living situation (i.e. home apartment, stairs to enter, doorway widths, and bathroom configuration). Specific training is also provided in the use of equipment, walkers, wheelchair or other assistive devices, medication management, wound care and disease management.
• Patients receive an individualized treatment plan including three hours of therapy daily at least five days a week. The goal is to help patients to be as independent as possible for a higher quality of life. Goals during treatment concentrate on: adjusting to lifestyle changes, returning to community setting, focusing on specific patient and caregiver needs, achieving maximum function and state of wellness, participating in decision making, psychological adjustment, and preventing complications. Once per week all provider specialties meet to look at the treatment goals for each patient. They discuss whether goals are reasonable for the patient's abilities and whether goals are being met. If not, changes are made and treatment adjusted. They also make decisions about the discharge plan during these meetings.
• The Parkland Inpatient Rehabilitation unit is part of both the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS) and Burn Injury Model Systems (BIMS), sponsored by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). These partners help us bring innovative projects, research and resources to our patients.
  

Criteria for Admission and Continuing Stay

To qualify for admission to rehab and continued stay, the patient:

• Must have medical/surgical conditions under control and able to be managed on the rehab unit
• Must be able to tolerate at least three hours of therapy five days a week or more.
• Must need services from more than one specialty at a level that would require inpatient rehabilitation.
• Needs at least two therapies and rehabilitative nursing.
• Is willing to take part in an intensive rehabilitation program
• Is able to make significant improvement in a reasonable amount of time and have realistic goals for a transition to their community.

Criteria for Discharge/Transition

Patients will be discharged from the Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit when any of the following are met:

• No documented evidence of measurable improvement
• The patient has improved to the projected functional level that will safely allow discharge to a specified environment, supervised or unsupervised
• The patient has received maximum benefit from the program
• The patient experiences a major intervening surgical, medical, or psychological problem that precludes benefit rom a continued intensive rehab program
• The patient and/or family no longer desires to be active participants in the program
• The patient signs out AMA (Against Medical Advice) or LBTC (Leaves Before Treatment Complete)
• The funding source (i.e. insurance) for the patient's stay refuses/denies continued stay and an alternative safe discharge level of care is arranged

To learn more about Inpatient Rehab Unit, view our brochure or brochure (Espanol).

To learn more about our Stroke Rehabilitation Program please click here.

To learn more about FY23 outcomes and data please click here.

Inpatient Hospital Services

A large therapy staff is spread throughout the hospital system to provide treatment to any patient in need. Service areas include, but are not limited to, neurology, neurosurgery, trauma, specialty surgical services, burns, oncology and general medicine areas. The therapy staff will even evaluate patients in the emergency department to reduce wait times.

Services