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Rehabilitation Services at St. Joseph's Healthcare System
Learn about Rehabilitation Services at St. Joseph's Healthcare System.
The Rehabilitation Service Line at St. Joseph's Healthcare System is an opportunity for all of the professionals to offer a continuum of inpatient hospital, nursing home, acute rehabilitation unit, and home care services. We make sure in rehab that on the very first visit that the patient's goal and the therapist's goal are the same.
The system approach is very integrative or continuus. A patient may come in through the trauma bay at the St. Joe's Paterson campus, get stabilized and then come into the acute rehabilitation unit and continue with their therapy to be reintegrated back into the community. We see patients with all different types of diagnosis from trauma to strokes to rheumatological problems, multiple schlerosis, amputations. Any patient after they've suffered an impairment or a disability their most important concern is the attempt to return to a vocation and functional independence.
We demand the highest level of certification that any treatment individual can obtain towards our patients and the reason being is that that's where you can offer that expertise level of care. For the Acute Rehabilitation Unit we have a physical therapist and occupational therapist.
The Rehabilitation Service Line in the St. Joseph's Healthcare System is an opportunity for the rehabilitation specialists, physical occupational therapists as well as physician and nursing services to integrate what the other medical specialists have done to stabilize the patient then to teach the patient what needs to be done in order to transition into a safe home care situation.
