RehabCare Center

The RehabCare Center at Riverview Hospital is a 24-bed unit specializing in acute inpatient medical rehabilitation. The Center is specifically designed to meet the needs of patients recovering from stroke or other traumatic injury, or from specific types of surgery, such as joint replacement.

Each individual referred to RehabCare is first evaluated with an individualized rehabilitation plan developed following evlauation. The rehabilitation plan helps the patient develop the skills necessary to live as independently as possible after leaving the hospital. Rehabilitation addresses physical or medical problems, difficulties with daily living activities, and specialized problems with feeding, communication, attention, and self-care.

Patients served include those who have experienced:

Successful rehabilitation requires a healthy re-integration of the individual and family into his or her home and community. The transition from hospital to home requires the support of the medical director, nurses, physical, occupational, and speech therapists, social workers, psychologists, family members, family physicians, and other rehabilitation team members.

Eighty percent of patients admitted to the RehabCare Center in 2006 were able to be discharged to their home or assisted living environment. In 2006, the Riverview RehabCare Center earned a 96% patient satisfaction rate. 

The RehabCare Center includes a private dining room, transitional apartment, kitchen and laundry area to teach real-life skills prior to discharge, and gymnasium for therapy and recreation.

RehabCare Patients also have the opportunity to enjoy the RehabCare Center's resident Canine Companion, Larkin. Larkin, a full bred yellow Labrador Retriever was specifically trained to assist in the social, emotional and physical recovery of patients in the RehabCare Center.

Tours of the RehabCare center are available by calling (317) 776-7911.