New Respite Program

Poet's Seat Health Care Center is proud to introduce our new respite program.

• Diagnoses
• List of medications and treatments
• Diet and any restrictions
• Short term goal
• And estimated length of stay, and potential discharge date.

For residents who would need or benefit from a three (3) to thirty (30) day stay, we are here for you. Our goal is to offer our home to you, the caregivers, families, and friends. To those individuals who need continuous support and nursing care.

Please call to discuss this unique opportunity with our Admissions Director or Director of Nursing.

People First Plus Rehabilitation

People First Plus Rehabilitation provides the rehabilitation services at Poet's Seat Health Care Center for short-term and long-term residents. People First Plus therapists provide each resident with the highest quality of rehab therapy. We offer individualized occupational, physical and speech/swallow therapy 5 days a week.

We treat residents with various diagnoses including:

• Orthopedic-total hip replacements, total knee replacements
  
• Neurologic-Parkinson's, strokes, multiple sclerosis
  
• Cardiac-coronary artery bypass surgery, coronary artery disease
  
• Respiratory-pneumonia, CHF, COPD
  

Our emphasis for short-term residents is to maximize their safety and independence in order to be discharged home. Our long-term care goal is to achieve the resident's highest level of independence and to train members of the team for continuity of care.

Our therapy program includes:

• Community re-entry and home assessments
  
• Family and caregiver education
  
• Developing self care skills
  
• Gait, transfer, bed mobility and wheelchair mobility training
  
• Strengthening, range of motion, and balance activities
  
• Cognitive retraining
  
• Wound management
  
• Orthotic and prosthetic fitting and training
  
• Seating and positioning
  
• Speech/language therapy and use of communication aides
  
• Swallow retraining
  
• Utilizing adaptive equipment
  
• Modalities to treat pain, edema, wounds and contractures
  
• Sensory re-education

People First Plus Therapists are an integral part of the team along with the resident, family, social worker, nurses, doctors and activities staff to ensure the best quality care is provided. Together, we are able to achieve the residents potential and strive to discharge them to the safest environment possible.

· 63 bed privately owned, skilled nursing facility

· JCAHO accredited

· Medicare and Medicaid certified - some Medicare Managed Plans accepted

· Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Pathology

· Individualized nursing care to encourage residents maximum level of functioning

· New England Geriatrics psychiatric services

· Social Services

· Discharge planning

· Daily recreational and therapeutic activities

· Registered dietician services

· Meal choice program