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Winter/Spring 2014

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Acute Rehabilitation Units What is acute rehabilitation? Rehabilitation is a team of health care professionals working together to help people regain function or skills lost due to injury or disability. What are the acute rehabilitation requirements? must need two forms of therapy disciplines; physical therapy and/or occupational therapy or speech therapy must be able to participate/tolerate 3 hours of therapy 5 of 7 days per week or 15 hours per week must have the expectation of returning to the community, i.e. home, independent living, assisted living, or home with family/friend must have medical needs that require a physician to monitor daily a physician order is required for a patient to be admitted Acute rehabilitation units (ARU) may differ from sub-acute rehab units and skilled nursing rehab units because an ARU: admission is an in-patient hospital stay follows Medicare guidelines for inpatient rehab facilities (IRF) provides 3 hours of therapy 5 of 7 days or 15 hours per week provides 2 or more therapy disciplines provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary team approach provides 24 hour physician medical coverage provides unit based RN 24/7 92 See our listing on page 93.

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