Inpatient Rehabilitation
Serious illness or injury — it’s not something we like to think about. But when it happens, Bellin Health’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit is here to help you make the fullest recovery possible, so you can return to your lifestyle feeling — and functioning — better.
Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
- 24-hour physician availability
- 24-hour rehabilitation nursing
- Intense therapy, with at least two types of therapy, three sessions per day, five days a week.
- Occupational therapy
- Physical therapy
- Speech therapy
- Weekly family meetings to update patient and family on rehabilitation progress
- Other inpatient care services determined necessary to address patient’s specific medical condition
Conditions Treated
- Amputation, lower body
- Brain injury, traumatic and non-traumatic (Rancho Level 5 or higher)
- Burns
- Cerebral vascular accident (CVA), Stroke
- Congenital deformity, e.g. CP
- Major multiple trauma
- Neurological disorder
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Polyneuropathy, including Guillain-Barre
- Others
- Orthopedic disability
- Long bone fracture, including hip/femur
- Joint replacement, including knee/hip*
- Spinal cord injury and dysfunction
- Other complex medical issues as judged by rehabilitation physician
*Age 85 or greater; BMI 50 or greater.
Minimum requirements for patients entering Bellin Health’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit
- 18 years or older (adult-only facility)
- Ability to participate in therapy programs (occupational, physical or speech therapies)
- Evidence of potential functional gain from intensive therapy
- Medical stability
- Significant improvement expected within reasonable amount of time
- Sufficient mental alertness
Our interdisciplinary team consists of:
- Diabetes Educators
- Neuropsychologists
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians
- Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists
- Prosthetists
- Registered Dieticians
- Rehabilitation Nurses
- Rehabilitation Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Wound Nurses
We welcome and encourage the patient’s primary care provider to participate and be a part of the rehabilitation team.
Bellin Health is the Primary Stroke Center as certified by Det Norske Veritas® (DNV). The Bellin Inpatient Rehab Department is an aggressive health care provider committed to providing a high level of therapist and nursing excellence to help patients achieve their goal of regaining physical, mental and emotional independence.
Bellin Health’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit has also passed the survey given by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This survey examines programming and service offerings, as well as adherence to regulatory and patient safety standards. Bellin started a stroke support group in 2011, which continues to meet on a regular basis.
Bellin Health’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit has also passed the survey given by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This survey examines programming and service offerings, as well as adherence to regulatory and patient safety standards. Bellin started a stroke support group in 2011, which continues to meet on a regular basis.
