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Inpatient Rehabilitation CenterPatients typically stay between five days and three weeks in the Glens Falls Hospital's 15-bed Inpatient Rehabilitation Center, receiving about three hours a day of physical therapy, speech therapy and occupational therapy to help them do basic activities such as eating, dressing and grooming without assistance. Patients are expected to get up and dressed every day.
The Center features a rehab gym, where patients spends their therapy sessions working on a host of rehab apparatus, including floor mats, parallel bars and a Lite Gait, which helps them gradually put weight on their lower extremities. Patients eat or can grab a snack in a common dining room that duals as a training ground for when they return to their own homes and the challenges that face them in the kitchen. When not in session, patients can stroll and roll throughout the floor. The goal of the program is to maximize independence after an illness or an injury. Prior to the Center's existence, the Hospital transferred about 240 patients a year to similar rehabilitation programs in Cohoes or Schenectady, placing a strain on families and loved ones often traveling an hour each way for visits. Having families closer and more involved helps patients regain mobility faster. Having the unit located in the hospital also lends itself particularly well should the rehab regimen be too premature for certain patients, said Luckenbaugh. "The beauty of having a rehab center attached to the hospital is that if a patient cannot tolerate rehab and gets sick we can transfer them back" to a patient floor. |
