Restorative Nursing Program
Dietary Program
Rehabilitation
Physical Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Speech Therapy
We provide 24-hour skilled care and rehabilitation services in a comfortable and friendly environment.
The following skilled nursing services can be provided:
- On-site Medical Director coordinates and improves medical services
- Director of Nursing oversees all aspects of health care within the facility
- Individualized resident care plan treatments
- IV therapy
- Wound care
- Respite stays
- Enteral feeding program
- Catheter care
- Colostomy Care
- Off-site dialysis
- Illiostomy Care
- Nutrition & hydration programs
- Medication management & education
- Diabetic management & education
- Restorative nursing
- Pain management
- Hospice program
- Bowel & bladder programs
- Model environment for nurse training
- In-house, on-going continued learning courses
Restorative Nursing Program
The therapy team and nursing staff develop individualized treatment plans for resident care in the areas of:
- Ambulation
- Range of motion
- Activities of daily living
- Positioning and alignment
- Skin integrity and wound management
- Contracture management including whirlpool treatments
- Bowel and bladder training
- Rehabilitative and social dining
- Strengthening and restraint reduction
Dietary Program
- Provide meals to meet specific dietary and therapeutic needs, according to physician orders. (Please inform the dietary supervisor in advance regarding all substitute menu requests)
- Oral supplemental diets are available
- Regular nutritional assessments from our registered dietitian
Rehabilitation
Christie Gunnarsson, director of rehabilitation - has 21 years of rehab experience. She works along side her husband Biggi from Iceland who she met working in the field. Christie has a strong rehab team that works hard to help each resident reach their full potential. She enjoys many activities including fishing, traveling and most of all listening to her husband sing. He just put out his newest CD “I was younger then” in March 2008. Biggy sings for many of the events at Villa that the patients and staff love. They are Villa’s very own celebrity couple.
Our experienced rehabilitation team is committed to the quality of care for our residents. Patients are empowered through individualized programs to reach goals of increased independence and ability. Patient families are also encouraged to participate in therapy sessions, caregiver education and training.
Physical Therapy
Physical therapy focuses on identification and rehabilitation of individuals with physical impairment and pain, as well as future injury prevention. Following evaluation, the physical therapist develops an individualized treatment program. The goal is to achieve safety in a variety of areas. Areas of treatment focus may include:
- Increase strength and mobility in the body and lower extremities
- Increase motor control for a patient who has suffered a stroke
- Improve coordination, balance and the ability to walk following a fracture
- Improve overall strength conditioning and endurance
- Pain management
- Teaching proper body mechanics to prevent injury
- Promoting safety awareness for the well being of the resident
- Community re-entry
Occupational Therapy
Our occupational therapists use task directed activities in the treatment of our patients whose functional abilities and independence with activities of daily living have been impaired by illness, injury or normal aging.
Occupational therapy assists our patients in adapting to their social and physical environment by mastering tasks essential for daily living. Our occupational therapists may work with patients who have debilitating arthritic conditions or those with difficulty bathing, dressing and other activities of daily living. They assist our patients with impaired vision and/or hearing to function well in their environment. Treatment goals may include:
- Functional independence- eating bathing, toileting, homemaking, cooking
- Maintenance of wellness- dressing, grooming
- Prevention of further disability- home assessments and modifications, adaptive equipment
- Increasing safety awareness
Speech Therapy
Our speech therapists provide a continuum of services including assessment, education and treatment for language, voice, articulation and fluency disorders. Our treatment programs are directed towards improving communication skills. We re-train patients who struggle with comprehension, memory, processing and expression abilities. We also instruct the patient or the caregiver in the techniques ranging from head positioning, to promoting safe swallowing at a slower rate, to clearer speech. We also teach patients how to compensate if they cannot be re-trained to their prior level of performance.
Patients admitted to the facility that are receiving nutrition partially or exclusively via a gastrostomy tube are evaluated for their potential to return to solid foods as appropriate.
Speech therapists work to restore the following abilities in communication:
- Swallowing
- Speaking
- Cognition
- Hearing
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