Poet's Seat Health Care Center

It's not just about the care... it's all about the caring.

We offer medical, social and rehabilitative services in a caring, family- & community-oriented skilled nursing facility...

REHABILITATION

Led by a dedicated team of physical, occupational, and respiratory therapists, our rehabilitated services are tailored to ensure resident success. Our rehab program, which also includes speech pathology, range from intensive one-on-one sessions to groups sessions to specifically-designed support groups.

In a nutshell, our rehabilitative offerings include:

Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Speech and Language Pathology
Breathe Easy, our integrated, inpatient pulmonary rehabilitation program

Poet's Seat Health Care Center provides in-house REHABILITATION for our short-term and long-term residents. Our rehabilitation therapists give each resident the highest quality therapy, and specialize in individualized occupational, physical and speech/swallow therapy five 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.

The Poet's Seat 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

The rehabilitative therapy staff works integrally with our caring team that includes our residents and their families, our social workers, nurses, doctors and activities staff, to ensure the best quality care is given. Together, we are able to achieve the residents' potentials and strive to discharge them to the safest environment possible.

For a complete list of all of our services, please visit our Skilled Care page.

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