Inpatient physical rehabilitation

Our inpatient rehabilitation unit offers 28 private and semi-private patient rooms and is dedicated to providing comprehensive rehabilitative care. As part of our inpatient program, you also have access to a higher level of care, if needed, such as dialysis, diagnostic imaging, medical consultations or laboratory testing.

To take a personalized tour of our inpatient rehabilitation unit, call us at (941) 526-3718.

Types of inpatient therapy we offer

Patients in our inpatient rehabilitation unit have access to:

• Therapeutic recreation — to address your needs, deficiencies, interests, barriers, life experiences and potential for reintegrating into the community; this therapy may include:
  • Functional skill development
  • Social adjustment skill training
  • Leisure skill development
  • Leisure education and counseling
  • Community reintegration training
  • Humor project
  • Pet therapy
• Occupational therapy — to help you learn new ways to complete the activities of daily living after an injury or condition
• Physical therapy — to restore your function, improve mobility, relieve pain and prevent or limit permanent physical disability from physical impairments
• Speech-language pathology — to improve your ability to communicate and/or swallow

To learn more about our speech-language pathology services, please call us at (941) 798-6220.

Our inpatient rehabilitation unit is equipped with a range of unique technology to aid in the rehabilitation process, including:

• Specialized apartments to practice activities of daily living with full bathroom, kitchen and laundry appliances
• Assistive movement tool that helps you walk faster and farther with increased independence
• Smart physical therapy equipment used for all types of therapies involving the upper and lower extremities
• Advanced system that allows radiographic viewing of the swallowing process
• Interactive technology that synchronizes body movements to enhance motor skills, strength, endurance and coordination
• Measurement tools for oral strength and endurance as it relates to speech therapy
• Gait-training equipment that controls the amount of weight being supported, posture and overall balance
• Interactive video game technology for balance, endurance and strengthening
• Use of electrodes to stimulate the swallowing muscles

When you are in our care, you have access to a range of specialty physicians, including:

• Physical therapists
• Physical therapy assistants
• Occupational therapists
• Therapeutic recreations specialists
• Speech-language pathologists
• Prosthetic-orthotic specialists
• Neurologists
• Orthopedists
• Surgeons
• Vascular and wound care physicians
• Infectious disease specialists
• Pulmonologists
• Psychiatrists
• Psychologists
• Neuropsychologists
• Physiatrists
• Radiologists
• Scheduling coordinators

As you adapt to change, the support of family and friends is vital, but they face their own challenges with the sudden onset of change for their loved one. We help by including support for your family, caregivers and friends, in our individualized therapy care plans. All members have an opportunity to learn about their role, and each is asked to participate in therapy training sessions as needed.

Discharge planning is an important step in the rehabilitative process. Upon discharge from our center, equipment and home or outpatient services are coordinated to complete the final stages of the rehabilitation program.