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 What
is The Rehabilitation Center at Southern Regional
Medical Center?
It's a special inpatient unit for patients who aren't ready to go home and
need intensive therapy and nursing care. Many of the people who come here
have experienced one of the following:
- Stroke
- Spinal cord injury
- Amputation
- Congenital deformity
- Major multiple trauma
- Arthritis in multiple joints that limits activity
- Burns
- Complicated joint replacements
- Neurological disorder
- Brain injury
- Fractured hip
Who is eligible for admission?
The Rehabilitation Center at Southern Regional Medical Center
provides a comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation program for people who have
suffered a loss of ability to function as a result of accident, injury, illness,
or surgery. To be eligible for admission, you must:
- Have an approved referral
- Be medically stable and willing to participate in the rehabilitation
program
- Require two or more therapies (physical, occupational, and/or speech
therapy)
- Have the motivation, the physical stamina and endurance to tolerate a
minimum of three hours of therapy a day
- Require 24-hour rehabilitation nursing care
- Have an identified discharge plan and support system
- Be free of uncontrolled, infectious disease
- Be eighteen years of age or older
- Be free of mechanical assistive devices to breathe
Criteria for admission include impairment(s) of:
- Mobility
- Self-care activities
- Cognitive function
- Communication
- Perceptual motor function
- Swallowing
When you are referred to the rehabilitation program, a rehabilitation
physician and/or rehabilitation evaluator visits with you to conduct an
assessment to determine if you meet the above criteria. If you do, you are
accepted for admission into the rehabilitation program. You and your family/caregiver(s)
are encouraged to tour The Rehabilitation Center at Southern Regional
and ask any questions that you may have.
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