When a patient comes home from the hospital after an illness or a surgery, rehabilitation is an essential component for a successful recovery. The dictionary meaning for rehabilitation is to restore to a condition of good Health, ability to work or the like. The rehabilitation professionals use their expertise to relieve pain and discomfort, for recovery and to return to maximum possible function.

Home Health Rehab Team comprises of skilled Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, Speech therapy, Medical Caretaker, Psychologists, Dietician and Social Services.

I) Skilled Nursing: Home health rehab Nurse formulates the individual care plan, manages the medication for the pain relief and other support like injections, administration of medicines through IV line etc, wound care, post-surgical care, ostomy care, chronic disease management care, catheter care, patient and care giver education.

II) Physiotherapy: Physiotherapists follows a comprehensive evaluation in developing a care plan with short term and long term goals to relieve the pain, restore the mobility, strength and ambulation and regain the independent functional mobility of the patient.

III) Occupational therapy: Occupational therapists in conjunction with home health rehab team will develop and implement in-home treatment plan to retrain and rehabilitate essential life skills lost as a result of an illness or injury.

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